Design And Implementation Of The Web-based Experiment Platform For Multi-agent Systems

With the rapid development of computer technology,various labs and research institutes have embarked on the integration of computer and control technology,which boosts the development of networked control technology and remote labs.Currently,more and more practical applications require interconnection and cooperative tasking of multiple autonomous agents,while most research and development of remote labs is targeted for single agent system,the simulation platform for multi-agent system are still immature and the related research is rare.Toward this problem,this paper,based on NCSLAB,designed and developed a experiment platform for multi-agent systems,which is capable of remote simulation and virtual experiment for multiple systems.First,the demand analysis of establishing the web-based virtual experiment platform for multi-agent systems is performed,and the architecture of web-based networked control system software is studied.The basic demand of the capability of constructing multiple systems in a single web page and the capability of one-key simulation/compilation is conformed,the architecture of the web-based control system software is designed,the scheduling between different modules is done,which makes it convenient for design of the follow-up software and platforms.Next,according to the basic demand for the capability of one-key simulation/compilation,the software designing flow is sketched.The scheme for constructing multi-system platform is designed,based on which the blueprint for the implementation of the multi-system platform is provided.The technical difficulties of the blueprint are also analyzed.Then,based on the blueprint,the web-based virtual experiment platform is implemented by Web technology.In this part of job,various working modules of the platform for multi-agent systems are implemented,which constitute the multi-agent system and provides the functionality of simulation and compilation of multiple systems.Finally,according to the demand analysis for virtual experiment platform for multi-agent systems,the simulation and experiment test are conducted.First a 3-subsystem system is designed to test the independence of each subsystem,then a simulation of circular trajectory tracking with single air-bearing testbed system and a formation simulation are conducted,verifying the effectiveness of the multiple system simulation.