Coordination of self-optimizing mechatronic systems: A new application for multi-agent planning

ICAART 2009 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 312-317

  Klöpper, Benjamin ^a   Dangelmaier, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mechatronics; Multi agent systems; Planning and coordination; Self optimization

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION AREA; AUTONOMOUS MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS; COORDINATION PROBLEMS; MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS; MECHATRONICS SYSTEMS; MULTI-AGENT PLANNING; MULTI-AGENT TECHNOLOGIES; NEW APPLICATIONS; SELF-OPTIMIZATION; SELF-OPTIMIZING;

MECHATRONICS; OPTIMIZATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349454216     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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