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Distributed Optimization System

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OSTI ID:879972
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  1. Albuquerque, NM
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A search system and method for controlling multiple agents to optimize an objective using distributed sensing and cooperative control. The search agent can be one or more physical agents, such as a robot, and can be software agents for searching cyberspace. The objective can be: chemical sources, temperature sources, radiation sources, light sources, evaders, trespassers, explosive sources, time dependent sources, time independent sources, function surfaces, maximization points, minimization points, and optimal control of a system such as a communication system, an economy, a crane, and a multi-processor computer.
Research Organization:
Sandia Corporation
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Assignee:
Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
Patent Number(s):
US 6826431
Application Number:
10/392542
OSTI ID:
879972
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (5)

Touch Points in Optimal Ascent Trajectories with First-Order State Inequality Constraints journal July 1998
A decentralized cooperation protocol for autonomous robotic agents conference April 1995
A shortcoming of the multilevel optimization technique journal July 1971
Cooperative search and rescue with a team of mobile robots conference January 1997
ALLIANCE: an architecture for fault tolerant, cooperative control of heterogeneous mobile robots conference January 1994

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