Multi-agent control for integrated heat and electricity management in residential districts

For the built environment it is envisaged that in the next decades the total annual energy demand, both thermal and electric, could be covered by renewable sources generated within the built environment. More and more thermoelectric elements, such as heat pumps and thermal storage, will enable conversion from heat to electricity and vice versa....

Using agent technology to build a real-world training application

Using staff personnel for playing roles in simulation-based training (e.g. team mates, adversaries) elevates costs, and imposes organizational constraints on delivery of training. One solution to this problem is to use intelligent software agents that play the required roles autonomously. BDI modeling is considered fruitful for developing such...

Do you get it? User-evaluated explainable BDI agents

In this paper we focus on explaining to humans the behavior of autonomous agents, i.e., explainable agents. Explainable agents are useful for many reasons including scenario-based training (e.g. disaster training), tutor and pedagogical systems, agent development and debugging, gaming, and interactive storytelling. As the aim is to generate for...

An Autonomous Distributed Control System for Naval Platforms

The success of the missions of naval ships depends highly on the availability of sensor, weapon, and command systems. These systems depend on support systems such as chilled water systems and electrical power systems. Disturbances caused by technical problems or battle damage may result in deterioration or failure of the support systems....

Method for applying daytime colors to nighttime imagery in realtime

We present a fast and efficient method to derive and apply natural colors to nighttime imagery from multiband sensors. The color mapping is derived from the combination of a multiband image and a corresponding natural color reference image. The mapping optimizes the match between the multiband image and the reference image, and yields a...

A semantic feature model for conceptual design of warships

In the conceptual design phase of warships, important decisions are made based on relatively little information. It isdecided here whether a concept is feasible, and whether the resulting model should be the basis for further development. The conceptual design phase is characterised by the frequent use of rule of the thumb methods. These methods...

A hybrid Multi Agent System architecture for distributed supervision of chronic patients in the eHealth setting

eHealth, the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the health sector, enhances today's health care environment. In particular, the use of Multi Agent System (MAS) technology, an aspect of ICT, can further contribute to the improvement of health care. Exceptional integration of this technology requires a Cognitive Engineering ...

Scalable HIL simulator for multi-agent systems interacting in physical environments

Important application domains of multi-agent systems require agent interactions in physical environments (e.g. mobile robotics, intelligent transportation systems, etc.). Sensing and sensory data interpretation play ever increasing role because sensing becomes the primary way of collecting information about the environment. In the most...

The AMI Meeting Corpus: A Pre-Announcement

Abstract. The AMI Meeting Corpus is a multi-modal data set consisting of 100 hours of meeting recordings. It is being created in the context of a project that is developing meeting browsing technology and will eventually be released publicly. Some of the meetings it contains are naturally occurring, and some are elicited, particularly using a...

Evaluation of advanced driver assistance system with the VEHIL test facility: Experiences and future developments at TNO automotive

This paper presents the working principle, functionality and the experience during the first operational period of the VEHIL laboratory, dedicated to the development and testing of advanced driver assistance systems. The position of VEHIL and its PC based full software variant PRESCAN is illustrated based on the so-called V-cycle.

Multi-agent based simulator with high fidelity virtual sensors

Nowadays the distributed implementation of measurement/data processing/control systems is gaining importance. This process is driven by application domain needs. Wide variety of applications (e.g. mobile-robotic, intelligent vehicle, autonomous-guided-vehicle systems) can be modelled as a collection of interacting, highly autonomous, complex...

Behavior modeling through CHAOS for simulation of dismounted soldier operations

One of the major challenges in human behavior modeling for military applications is dealing with all factors that can influence behavior and performance. In a military context, behavior and performance are influenced by the task at hand, the internal (cognitive and physiological) and external (climate, terrain, threat, equipment, etc.) state....