Title :
Design of an intelligent cart system for common airports
Author :
Kambayashi, Yasushi ; Harada, Yoshikuni ; Sato, Osamu ; Takimoto, Munehiro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Eng., Nippon Inst. of Technol., Saitama, Japan
Abstract :
This paper presents a framework for an intelligent cart system designed to be used in common airports. This framework provides novel methods to control carts using mobile software agents. In airport terminals, it is desirable that carts draw themselves together automatically after being used so that manual collection becomes less laborious. In order to avoid excessive energy consumption by the carts, we employ mobile software agents and RFID to locate carts scattered in a field and cause them to autonomously determine their moving behavior using clustering based on the ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm.
Keywords :
airports; control system synthesis; intelligent robots; mobile agents; optimisation; radiofrequency identification; RFID; airport terminals; ant colony optimization; intelligent cart system; intelligent robots; mobile software agents; Airports; Ant colony optimization; Automatic control; Clustering algorithms; Energy consumption; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Radiofrequency identification; Scattering; Software agents; RFID; ant colony clustering; ant colony optimization; automonous system; mobile software agent;
Conference_Titel :
Consumer Electronics, 2009. ISCE '09. IEEE 13th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2975-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2976-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISCE.2009.5156847
