The Component-based Design Method for Agent-based Multi-AGV System

The agent-based multi-AGV system is envisioned to be highly flexible and adaptable for the evolving requirement of industrial automation. However, the current design method of the automation software remains monolithic and is still based on the centralized control mechanism, which makes the system engineers struggle with the complexity of the development process under the distributed system requirements. This paper applies component-based design method and the embedded agent architecture for multi-AGV system to reduce the agent design effort and improve the flexibility of the design process, and proposes a task-oriented component granularity partitioning method. A multi-AGV system in laboratory level test scenario verifies the easy-and-flexible-using of this investigation.