A Coordination Mechanism to Solve Common Resource Contantion in Multi-Agent Space Systems
Andrea Brambilla, Michèle Roberta Lavagna · Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha) · 2008
This paper presents an approach for coordinating the usage of common resources in a team of intelligent space systems. This problem typically arises in multi agent scheduling where each task is controlled by a specific unit and requires a certain amount of a limited capacity common resource. Just to state an example we can report the scenario of a rovers team contending for a common orbiter antenna as unique data relay to Earth. The coordination is fulfilled by decoupling the global interdependencies with proper local constraints. The advantage consists in limiting the communications at execution time and in reducing the ripple effects of distributed backtracking.