Practical Performance Aspects of Using Real-Time Multi-agent Platform in Complex Systems

Król, Dariusz; Nowakowski, Filip

doi:10.1109/smc.2013.195

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“…For aiding new developers, in recent years, many works feature analysis of performance and comparison of MAS development tools. 1,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] Kalliopi Kravari and Nick Bassiliades 1 present an updated review of the most promising agents development platforms based on universal criteria of evaluation, which are grouped in five criteria categories: platform properties, usability, operating ability, pragmatics, and security management, as given in Table 1. Each criterion has several subcriteria associated to each agent platform.…”

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“…17 An agent becomes sensitive to its respective environment in the presence of sensors, enabling it to achieve its goals through decision making and then interacting with the environment using actuators. 1,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] The modern power grids are strongly featured by the interaction between elements, the Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED), using specific standards, such as IEC 61850. 1 In the last few years, numerous agent-based modeling platforms have been developed with a wide variety of characteristics.…”

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“…The choice of a given platform is based on relevant information mostly provided in solid survey articles based on proper comparison criteria. 1,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] The modern power grids are strongly featured by the interaction between elements, the Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED), using specific standards, such as IEC 61850. Taking this into account, this paper presents a novel multi-agent platform named Python Agent DEvelopment (PADE), an open source platform that is hosted on GitHub repository.…”

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Python‐based multi‐agent platform for application on power grids

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Int Trans Electr Energ Syst

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Summary Concerns about the future energy needs challenge energy experts to present advanced power grids making them smarter. Smart grids employ digital technology and are based on highly collaborative and responsive decision‐making strategies. Current trends to control and manage their operation lead to the use of multi‐agent system (MAS) technology. This paper aims to present the design, specification, and application of the Python Agent DEvelopment (PADE) framework, an open source platform implemented in Python language and conceived for the implementation of multi‐agent systems on power systems. PADE is compliant with specifications of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents and eases the development of solutions to power systems based on MAS. For demonstration of the effectiveness of PADE, an automatic restoration system MAS‐based is presented. A test bed that encompasses agents embedded on computation devices is used to demonstrate the practical implementation of a PADE‐based multi‐agent systems in a power distribution network.

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“…A good survey of 24 such platforms, including the popular, FIPA-compliant examples JADE [73] and FIPA-OS [74], can be found in [72]. While these platforms are powerful, multifunctional, and allow code mobility, their agent execution timing is non-deterministic due to the underlying JVMs garbage collection routines, class initialisation, and just-in-time compilation [75]. Additionally, their large memory footprints make them undesirable for use in the resourcerestricted, embedded environment of a satellite.…”

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A multicellular architecture towards low-cost satellite reliability

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Bridges

2015

2015 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS)

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A new class of low-cost satellites has the potential to reduce the cost of traditional space-based services. Unfortunately, to date, low-cost satellites have proven to suffer from poor reliability. While traditional techniques for increasing reliability are well known to satellite developers, these techniques are poorly suited for implementation on low-cost satellites due to intrinsic budgetary, mass and volume constraints. This research proposes that alternative techniques for increasing system reliability can be derived by studying biological organisms, which have proven their robustness by inhabiting even the harshest locations on earth. Both unicellular and multicellular organisms are examined. The result is a conceptual system architecture, based on initially identical, reconfigurable hardware blocks, or artificial cells, and a decentralized task management strategy. This multicellular architecture is described in detail. Finally, preliminary details of a planned implementation are given. This implementation aims to demonstrate that a significant portion of traditional satellite avionics can be replaced by the proposed artificial cells

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“…A good survey of 24 such platforms can be found in [13], with popular, FIPA-compliant examples including JADE [14,15] and FIPA-OS [16]. While these platforms are powerful and multifunctional, their agent execution timing is non-deterministic due to the underlying JVM's garbage collection routines, class initialisation, and just-in-time compilation [17]. In addition, their large memory requirements make them unsuitable for implementation in the resource-restricted, embedded environment of a satellite.…”

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A hybrid real-time agent platform for fault-tolerant, embedded applications

Erlank

Bridges

2017

Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst

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This paper describes an agent platform based on the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Systems Abstract Architecture, which, together with a highly fault tolerant, bioinspired hardware architecture, aims to increase the reliability of future, low-cost satellites. To achieve the stringent operational requirements imposed by the real-time and resourceconstrained environment of a satellite, the Hybrid Agent Real-Time Platform (HARP) distinguishes itself from other platforms in three areas. Firstly, the HARP middleware uses discrete processors, instead of virtual machines or interpreters, as its agent execution environment. This has the advantage of reducing the agency memory footprint and enabling agents to perform real-time tasks. Secondly, the HARP communication stack makes use of ISO-TP over CAN 2.0A as its transfer level protocol, cutting out resource-intensive layers such as HTTP and IIOP. In addition, the communication stack allows real-time CAN traffic to share the network and be given priority over Agent Communication Language messages. Finally, the HARP middleware embeds a peer-to-peer task manager in each agency, allowing systems which are built using the bio-inspired Artificial Stem Cell Architecture and HARP middleware to autonomously reconfigure in the event of failures. The detailed design of the HARP middleware is given, together with details of an implementation of the HARP middleware on a set of prototype satellite hardware. The performance and scaling potential of the middleware, determined through a set of physical experiments, provide evidence of the practical feasibility of the proposed architecture.

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Practical Performance Aspects of Using Real-Time Multi-agent Platform in Complex Systems

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Python‐based multi‐agent platform for application on power grids

Python‐based multi‐agent platform for application on power grids

A multicellular architecture towards low-cost satellite reliability

A hybrid real-time agent platform for fault-tolerant, embedded applications

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