A Multi-Agent Negotiation Approach to Formation Flying Coordination for Civil Aviation

This study proposes a novel coordination approach for the purpose of formation flying in civil aviation. Inspired by the natural phenomenon of bird flight, formation flying has proven to reduce the aerodynamic drag of trailing aircraft that follow the wake of a leader. We investigate the network scale fuel-savings potential of this operational...

Causes, Identification and Repair of loss of Common Ground in coordination in ATM (Air Traffic Management)

Over a century has passed since humans took to commercial flying. Traditional safety practices have worked well but the last decade has seen the need for an updated understanding of ATM safety. The modern safety views are complementary to the traditional ones but are also a new way of understanding and enabling safety practices. This master...

Cognitive Coordination for Cooperative Multi-Robot Teamwork

Multi-robot teams have potential advantages over a single robot. Robots in a team can serve different functionalities, so a team of robots can be more efficient, robust and reliable than a single robot. In this dissertation, we are in particular interested in human level intelligent multi-robot teams. Social deliberation should be taken into...

A Framework for ICT-Supported Coordination in Crisis Response

Crisis response efforts often require coordinating a previously unknown adhocracy of agencies under time pressure. While current technologies that support coordination are successful for well-defined static process descriptions, they may fall short in the face of more complex and unpredictable scenarios, such as a crisis or emergency. Using...

Coordination for Agents with Freedom of Choice

Autonomous, self-interested agents have to construct plans for their activities. Together, these plans form a joint plan in the multi-agent system the agents are part of. Merging the plans of these agents is not guaranteed to be successful as their plans might conflict. Hence, we require some form of coordination that enables agents to plan for...

Crisis response simulation combining discrete-event and agent-based modeling

This paper presents a crisis response simulation model architecture combining a discrete-event simulation (DES) environment for a crisis scenario with an agent-based model of the response organization. In multi-agent systems (MAS) as a computational organization, agents are modeled and implemented separately from the environmental model. We...

Enabling Agility through Coordinating Temporally Constrained Planning Agents

In crisis response, hierarchical organizations are being replaced by dynamic assemblies of autonomous agents that promise more agility. However, these autonomous agents might cause a decrease in effectiveness when individually constructed plans for moderately-coupled tasks are not jointly feasible. Existing coordination techniques can be applied...

Coordination among Autonomous Planners

Plan Merging in Multi-Agent Systems

Designing electronic intermediaries: An agent-based approach for designing interorganizational coordination mechanisms