Agent-based architecture for designing hybrid control systems
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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By contrast with the classical vehicle, designed for a source of a single type of fuel, (either gasoline or Diesel), the vehicles of the (near) future will have on board a hybrid source of energy, composed of more than one type of passive (stored) or active electrical power. The management of electric power sources mostly depends of the vehicle's dynamical functioning regime. Hence, the vehicles' overall control system follows strict requirements which impose complex classical solutions that are difficult or almost impossible to implement by using classical control technologies, while still incurring reasonable costs. This work brings forward a solution of distributed control which falls within the category of multi-agent systems. The environment for developing and programming multi-agents is the common software for standard and dedicated equipments, which is currently used to design the control structures on the mobile vehicles.