Fuzzy Timed Agent Based Petri Nets for Modeling Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems

作     者：Xingli HUANG Hua XU Peifa JIA 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory on Intelligent Technology and Systems Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology Department of Computer Science and Technology Tsinghua University 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences》 (通讯、网络与系统学国际期刊（英文）)

年 卷 期：2009年第2卷第9期

页      面：827-835页

学科分类：08[工学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：Petri nets Multi Cooperative Robot Systems Multi-Agent Systems 

摘      要：A cooperative multi-robot system (CMRS) modeling method called fuzzy timed agent based Petri nets (FTAPN) is proposed in this paper, which has been extended from fuzzy timed object-oriented Petri net (FTOPN). The proposed FTAPN can be used to model and illustrate both the structural and dynamic aspects of CMRS, which is a typical multi-agent system (MAS). At the same time, supervised learning is supported in FTAPN. As a special type of high-level object, agent is introduced into FTAPN, which is used as a common modeling object in its model. The proposed FTAPN can not only be used to model CMRS and represent system aging effect, but also be refined into the object-oriented implementation easily. At the same time, it can also be regarded as a conceptual and practical artificial intelligence (AI) tool for multi-agent systems (MAS) into the mainstream practice of the software development.