Bacterium Robot Society-A biologically inspired multi-agent concept for internal monitoring and controlling of processes

Halme, Aarne; Appelqvist, Pekka; Jakubik, Peter; Kähkönen, Pekka; Schönberg, Torsten; Vainio, Mika

doi:10.1109/iros.1996.569041

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“…The main merit of CIDIM is that it shows how different types of both existing old systems and new systems procured during the project can be smoothly incorporated into a cooperating community through the use of wrapper agents. Finally, a quite different approach to agentbased process monitoring and control was suggested by Halme et al 23 They use a society of autonomous underwater robots as a mobile distributed sensor instrument inside a process plant.…”

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Software agents for bioprocess monitoring and control

Davidsson

Wernstedt

2002

J of Chemical Tech & Biotech

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We argue for the appropriateness of using software agents for the monitoring and control of bioprocesses. Different approaches to the design of individual agents as well as complete multi-agent systems are discussed. This is followed by a brief discussion of a number of successful agent-based monitoring and control applications from different domains. We conclude by discussing the advantages and disadvantages of agent technology for monitoring and control of bioprocesses. # 2002 Society of Chemical Industry Keywords: monitoring and control; software agents; multi-agent systems INTRODUCTIONBioprocesses are getting more and more complex and often also involve economical and environmental constraints. This has led to engineers being faced with modelling and control problems of increasing complexity when trying to build systems that operate robustly over a wide range of conditions. When confronted with such problems, there is an intuitive appeal in decomposing them into a number of simpler local' problems. Local approaches of this kind are based on the divide-and-conquer strategy in the sense that the core of the representation of the model or controller is a partitioning of the system's full range of operation into multiple smaller operating entities, each of which is associated with a locally valid model or controller. This can often give a simpli®ed and transparent non-linear model or control representation. In addition, the local approach has computational advantages, it lends itself to adaptation and allows direct incorporation of high-level and qualitative plant knowledge into the model.

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Section: Agents In Monitoring and Control Applicationsmentioning

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Software agents for bioprocess monitoring and control

Davidsson

Wernstedt

2002

J of Chemical Tech & Biotech

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“…Collisions with other members create nodes which are, however, eventually removed from the graph. The pseudocode of the make.map-algorithm 21 is shown in Table I.…”

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Mobile robot society for distributed operations in closed aquatic environment

Vainio¹,

Appelqvist²,

Halme³

2000

Robotica

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In this paper a multirobot system consisting of small size ball-shaped mobile underwater robots is introduced. Robots form a cooperative society operating together for a common goal. This is made possible by inter-member communication and control architecture allowing cooperation. The test environment is a closed aquatic process containing tanks, pipes, and a jet pump. The task considered is cleaning of biologically contaminated spots in the process. Detailed hardware structure of a robot-member as well as the control architecture are introduced. Behaviour of the cooperative system is demonstrated in a test environment where contamination caused by biological algae growth is emulated by infrared panels behaving like a living biomass.

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