This note studies event-triggered control of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) with first order integrator dynamics. It extends previous work on event-triggered consensus by considering limited communication capabilities through strict peer-to-peer non-continuous information exchange. The approach provides both a decentralized control law and a decentralized communication policy. Communication events r...

The mechatronic design cycle is characterized by taking into account and integrating mechanics, electronics, and information processing in the design process. For complex mechatronic systems a promising procedure is the decomposition of the entire system according to physically reasonable criteria. To describe the function of such combined subsystems we use the expression "mechatronic function"...

Multi-agent systems often require runtime planning, which remains an open problem due to the existing gap between planning and execution in practice. Extensive research has been carried out in centralised planning for single-agent systems, but so far decentralised multi-agent planning has not been fully explored. In this paper, we extend existing multiagent platforms to enable decentralised pla...

A class of interconnected systems with nonlinear interconnections and nonlinear disturbances is considered. A continuous nonlinear reduced-order compensator is established by exploiting the structure of the uncertainties. A sliding surface is proposed in an augmented space formed by the system output and the compensator variables, and the stability of the corresponding sliding mode is analysed....

Event-based middleware systems have tried to interoperate with various platforms and languages. As this goal became reality for the most important and widespread platforms, the adoption of these systems begun. IBM’s WebSphere MQ, Sun’s JMS together with non event based architectures like CORBA, were industrial solutions that soon functioned as the interconnection mechanism behind server platfor...

This paper contributes to the development of a novel paradigm in logistics, i.e. self-organising logistics system (SoLS). A SoLS can be considered as a logistics system that can function without significant intervention by human, and without central control by software. It is functioning based on contextual local interactions. By such definition, SoLS could be a powerful solution to manage nowa...

In modern decentralised health systems, district and local managers are increasingly responsible for financing, managing, and delivering healthcare. However, their lack of adequate skills and competencies are a critical barrier to improved performance of health systems. Given the financial and human resource, constraints of relying on traditional face-to-face training to upskill a large and dis...

Autonomous control means the decentralised coordination of intelligent logistic objects and the routing through a logistic system by the intelligent parts themselves. This paper shows the application of a pheromone based autonomous control method to a matrix model of a shop floor and compares the performance to an earlier developed method in different dynamic demand situations. The dicrete even...