Design and Performance Verification of an Optimized Multi-agent System
Tianfan Zhang, Zhe Li, Zhihao Chen, Xiao Jing · European Journal of Electrical Engineering · 2019
The multi-agent system (MAS) mainly focuses on group control and network control.The existing studies on the MAS have not clearly defined the system performance, especially network saturation, agent load capacity and data transfer delay.To solve the problem, this paper develops a basic MAS communication framework, and proposes the optimized serial line Internet protocol (O-SLIP).The protocol can be deployed in any agent object and any layer, unifying the communication between the objects in the MAS system, and lays the basis for group control, consistency check, etc.Then, the proposed framework and the O-SLIP were verified through tests on network saturation, agent load capacity and transmission delay.Finally, the author summed up the important issues in the selection and design of MAS communication systems.