Multi‐Agent‐Based Material Data Acquisition
Jie Zhang · 2017
This chapter first introduces the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Then, it proposes a multi-agent RFID-based material data acquisition system in order to meet requirements of the data collection process. The chapter further presents an RFID middleware agent, an RFID reader agent and an RFID tag agent. A multi-agent-based material data acquisition system is used to manage RFID tags, readers and antennas and other equipment, in order to register the hardware in the software system, and to develop the RFID operating environment. The RFID middleware agent is a unified agent model, which consists of a basic definition module, an automatic driver module, an information processing module and an agent communication interface. The information processing center consists of six processing modules: data buffer module, event processing module, smooth filter module, data selection module, data analysis module and coordination control module. The event processing module is the gateway module of an information processing center.