Distributed Heterogeneous Multi Sensor Task Allocation Systems (automation, Collaboration, & E-services)

"Today's real-world problems and applications in sensory systems and target detection require efficient, comprehensive and fault-tolerant multi-sensor allocation. This book presents the theory and applications of novel methods developed for such sophisticated systems. It discusses the advances in multi-agent systems and AI along with collaborative control theory and tools. Further, it examines the formulation and development of an allocation framework for heterogeneous multi-sensor systems for various real-world problems that require sensors with different performances to allocate multiple tasks, with unknown a priori priorities that arrive at unknown locations at unknown time. It demonstrates how to decide which sensor to allocate to which tasks when and where. Lastly, it explains the reliability and availability issues of task allocation systems, and includes methods for their optimization. The presented methods are explained, measured, and evaluated by extensive simulations, and the results of these simulations are presented in this book. This book is an ideal resource for academics, researchers and graduate students as well as engineers and professionals and is relevant for various applications such as sensor network design, multi-agent systems, task allocation, target detection, and team formation." - Prové de l'editor Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 1-8 Multi-agent Task Allocation (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 9-14 Multi-sensor Task Allocation Systems (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 15-18 Evaluation Methodology (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 19-22 Single-Layer Multi-sensor Task Allocation System (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 23-47 Extended Examples of Single-Layer Multi-sensor Systems (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 49-79 Dual-Layer Multi-sensor Task Allocation System (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 81-91 Extended Example of Dual-Layer Multi-sensor Task Allocation Systems (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 93-103 Fault Tolerant Multi Sensor System with High Availability (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 105-115 Analytical Analysis of a Simplified Scenario of Two Sensors and Two Tasks (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 117-123 An Outlook of Multi-sensor Task Allocation (Itshak Tkach, Yael Edan)....Pages 125-131 Back Matter ....Pages 133-139