Conveying items using a distributed multi-agent allocaiton method

• Main Authors: ZIVAN Roie, AMADOR NELKE Sofia
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Hebrew
• Published: 01.08.2024
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

A computer based method for executing a task of conveying a group of items (GOI) to a set of targets, the method may include (a) receiving, by a computerized system, (i) a request to execute the task, (ii) GOI-related task skills required for conveying the group of items, and (iii) one or more parameters of a task utility function; (b) associating, by a task agent hosted by the computerized system, resource-skill agents (RSAs) to each GOI-related task skill; wherein the RSAs are heterogenous; (c) informing the RSAs about the GOI-related task skills; (d) participating, by the task agent, in multiple bidding iterations until reaching a convergence condition; wherein the bidding iterations explore only a fraction of all possible task allocations; and (e)conveying, by the computerized system, at least one item towards at least one target of the set of target when the computerized system is allocated, during the multiple bidding iterations, to convey the at least one item towards the at least one target.