Self-organizing multi-agent teamwork
2024 (English)In: Proactive Human-Robot Collaboration Toward Human-Centric Smart Manufacturing, Elsevier BV , 2024, p. 121-148Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
Self-organizing task allocation is vital for collaboration among multiple human and robotic agents to satisfy changing operational objectives and workspace dynamics. Nonetheless, current HRC systems heavily rely on predefined task configurations for human and robot agents, fail to consider manufacturing requirements from diverse operation sequences and varying mechanical components. To tackle this challenge, this chapter introduces a temporal subgraph approach for the task planning in Proactive HRC settings with multiple agents. The task allocation strategy is represented using a tri-layer knowledge graph that captures the relationships among tasks, agents, and operations. Simultaneously, we incorporate a temporal subgraph reasoning mechanism to extract implicit and historical knowledge from the knowledge graph, anticipating forthcoming actions for both humans and robots. To showcase the efficacy of the proposed methodology, we applied it to an assembly tasks of car engine and gearbox, respectively. The experimental results achieved significant performance.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 2024. p. 121-148
Keywords [en]
Engine assembly, Gearbox assembly, HRC KG, Multi-agent collaboration, Self-organizing HRC, Task allocation, Temporal subgraph reasoning
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-351525DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-44-313943-7.00013-2Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85199085736OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-351525DiVA, id: diva2:1890791
Note
Part of ISBN 9780443139437, 9780443139444
QC 20240820
2024-08-202024-08-202024-08-20Bibliographically approved