Meta-level control manages the allocation of limited resources to deliberative actions. This paper discusses efforts in adding meta-level control capabilities to a Markov Decision Process (MDP)-based scheduling agent. The agent’s reasoning process involves continuous partial unrolling of the MDP state space and periodic reprioritization of the states to be expanded. The meta-level controller ma...

The manufacturing process in a Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a more complex task than in the single integrated enterprise case. We are proposing an architectural systematisation of the manufacturing and control structures in a VE, in the context of business processes and highlevel planning. For the Information Technology (IT) integration of the VE, we propose the mobile agent paradigm, defining th...

this paper is concerned with the consensus tracking problem of high order mimo nonlinear multi-agent systems. the agents must follow a leader node in presence of unknown dynamics and uncertain external disturbances. the communication network topology of agents is assumed to be a fixed undirected graph. a distributed adaptive control method is proposed to solve the consensus problem utilizing re...

In the paper, the architecture of a mobile robot cooperating with other robots and some stationary devices in a task of collective perception and world modeling is considered. We present data-driven processing of information performed by an individual robot treated as an agent and we propose to organize it as a set of experts (also treated as agents) exchanging data by means of a blackboard. Th...

Multiagent POMDPs provide a powerful framework for optimal decision making under the assumption of instantaneous communication. We focus on a delayed communication setting (MPOMDP-DC), in which broadcast information is delayed by at most one time step. Such an assumption is in fact more appropriate for applications in which response time is critical. However, naive application of incremental pr...