Reference
A. Tarău, B. De Schutter, and H. Hellendoorn, "Multi-agent controllers
for large-scale transportation systems - Application to postal automation,"
Proceedings of the 9th TRAIL Congress 2006 - TRAIL in Motion -
CD-ROM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 12 pp., Nov. 2006.
Abstract
During the last decades, transportation systems have known fast growing volumes
of transporting materials and the focus is on quality, reliability and
throughput maximization. The throughput of these automated sorting and
transporting machines is limited by mechanical capabilities and also by the
performance of the process devices (surface scanners, address reading devices,
bar-code reading devices, etc.). What we require are structured distributed
control strategies, applicable for general transportation systems,
characterized by materials being processed, while they are transported by
conveyor systems e.g. sorting machines, baggage handling, distribution systems.
The goal is e.g. to maximize the throughput. In this paper we take postal
automation as an example of transportation system. We give an overview on how
postal automation works, we define the control problems and list some important
open problems in controlling the system. Finally, we propose possible
approaches to address some of these open problems.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{TarDeS:06-037,
author = {Tar{\u{a}}u, Alina and De Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn,
Hans},
title = {Multi-Agent Controllers for Large-Scale Transportation Systems
-- {Application} to Postal Automation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th TRAIL Congress 2006 -- TRAIL in Motion
-- CD-ROM},
address = {Rotterdam, The Netherlands},
month = nov,
year = {2006}
}