Distributed Control Systems Reliability: Consideration of Multi-agent Behavior

Sensor-network-based robust distributed control and estimation

“…The first line refers to the problems of controlling/monitoring a number of entities, called agents, that interact with the environment in the pursue of a control objective that must be collectively achieved. This line has revealed itself as a very productive topic of research with applications that have branched into a variety of fields as scheduling and planning [6,40], diag-nostics [8], condition monitoring [3,27,41], distributed control [3,14,41], hybrid control [13] and congestion control [15,38] among others.…”

[Retracted] Multi‐Agent Systems in Control Engineering: A Survey

“…Nowadays MAS technology is being used for a wide range of control applications including scheduling and planning [1,2], diagnostics [3], condition monitoring [4][5][6], distributed control [5,7], hybrid control [8], congestion control [9,10], system restoration [11], market simulation [12,13], network control [13,14], and automation [15]. Moreover, the technology is growing to the point where the first multi-agent systems are now being immigrated from the laboratory to the utility, allowing industry to gain experience in the use of MAS and also to evaluate their effectiveness [1].…”

Multiagent Attitude Control System for Satellites Based in Momentum Wheels and Event-Driven Synchronization

“…Any of the elements involved is an "agent" and they are designed to communicate with their peers. The main advantages of a multi-agent system over a centralized one is the possibility of a higher reliability [14] and the possibility of extending the number of actuators [15].…”