Hybrid Approach of Centralized Control and Distributed Control

for Flexible Transfer System(FTS)

  • The co-evolutionary learning method by centralized control and distributed control realizes efficient and flexible transportation of pallets on FTS.
  • The global path planner generates sub-optimal transfer paths by Genetic Algorithm (Centralized control).Each transfer module generates the action strategy as a stochastic vector corresponding to the palletfs destination using Learning Automata (Distributed control).
  • Each transfer module generates the action strategy as a stochastic vector corresponding to the palletfs destination using Learning Automata (Distributed control).

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                        Global path planning by GA                                 Generation of stochastic vector field using LA

                    Co-evolutionary learning between GA and LA


       Amount of transported material per 50steps Broken module