eXiT research group

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eXiT research group
Research line on agent-based distributed
planning and scheduling

• University of Girona

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eXiT Institutional Framework

• Teachers and students belong to the Departament
  d'Electrònica Informàtica i Automàtica (ISAATC)
• IT Doctoral program (Dept. EIA / IGSOC)
• Research activity is developed in the Institut
  d'Informàtica i Aplicacions
• Innovation EASY Center (CIDEM/X-IT network)

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Scope and research lines

• eXiT group develops an active research in the
  field of process supervision with emphasis in the
  integration of methods and techniques to assess
  process behaviour from measurements and
  experience reuse based on the following main
  points
• Case Based Diagnosis
• Multivariate statistical process control
• Qualitative representation of trends
• Knowledge discovering in data bases for situation
  assessment
• Agent-based distributed planning and scheduling
• Remote and virtual laboratories.
• Domains
• Chemical and petrochemical process (European
  project)
• Waste water treatment plants (MEC projects)
• Electric Distribution System (Power Quality)
  (Innovation)
• Electronic Circuits
• Road transportation passenger, ambulances.
• Pilot plant webCam

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Membership

• PhD
• Joan Colomer
• Joaquim Meléndez
• Carles Pous
• Beatriz López
• Sergi Herraiz
• Dídac Busquest (Ramón y Cajal, from April 1st,
  2006)
• PhD students wiht MsCThesis (DEA)
• Juan José Mora
• David Llanos
• Magda L. Ruiz O
• Bianca Innocenti
• Francisco I. Gamero
• Daniel A. Macaya
• PhD students
• Montse Rubio
• Pere Urra
• Víctor Muñoz

Arlab Silvia Suárez
Dept. IMA Josep M. Humet Miquel Bofill
Mateu Villaret
Others Miquel Muntaner
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Agent-based distributed planning and scheduling

• Motivation (history)
• Resource allocation in rescue environments
• Resource allocation in industries
• Research on robot architectures and distributed
  control
• Domains
• Rescue environment (MEC project, UPV, URV)
• Animal food productions (Innovation ?)
• Cutting (Innovation)
• Road transportation
• Passenger (Innovation, MEC project, UPV)
• Ambulance coordination (J.Trueta Hospital)
• Seat allocation in massive events (Innovation)
• Surveillance (MEC project)

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Task and resource allocation in distributed
environments

• MARKET MECHANISMS
• COMBINATORIAL AUCTIONS
• Re-scheduling
• Biding policies
• MAGNET (John Collins,USA)
• Robocup Rescue

PhD Student Silvia Suárez Supervisor Beatriz
López, Josep Lluis de la Rosa
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Distributed scheduling based on multi-agent
systems

• DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION

• MARKET MECHANISMS
• COMBINATORIAL AUCTIONS.

PhD Student Pere Urra Supervisor Beatriz
López
PhD Student Víctor Muñoz Supervisor
Beatriz López, Didac Busquets
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Multi-Agent Deliberative System Applied to
Control a Single Robot

• Multi-Agent Systems
• Planning merge
• Task Planning
• Distributed Robot Control

PhD Student Bianca Innocenti Supervisor Beatriz
López, Joaquim Salvi
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Thank you !
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• University of Girona