Author(s)

Xingli HUANG, Hua XU, Peifa JIA

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A cooperative multi-robot system (CMRS) modeling method called fuzzy timed agent based Petri nets (FTAPN) is proposed in this paper, which has been extended from fuzzy timed object-oriented Petri net (FTOPN). The proposed FTAPN can be used to model and illustrate both the structural and dynamic aspects of CMRS, which is a typical multi-agent system (MAS). At the same time, supervised learning is supported in FTAPN. As a special type of high-level object, agent is introduced into FTAPN, which is used as a common modeling object in its model. The proposed FTAPN can not only be used to model CMRS and represent system aging effect, but also be refined into the object-oriented implementation easily. At the same time, it can also be regarded as a conceptual and practical artificial intelligence (AI) tool for multi-agent systems (MAS) into the mainstream practice of the software development.

Petri nets, Multi Cooperative Robot Systems, Multi-Agent Systems

X. HUANG, H. XU and P. JIA, "Fuzzy Timed Agent Based Petri Nets for Modeling Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems," International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Vol. 2 No. 9, 2009, pp. 827-835. doi: 10.4236/ijcns.2009.29096.