Combinatorial auction method for decentralized task assignment of multiple-loading capacity AGV based on intelligent agent architecture

Distributed manufacturing system has steadily becoming more significant for topics for researchers within manufacturing industry. It is due to the reason that it could provide higher flexibility for an organization to cope with a demanding and fluctuating market. This paper proposes distributed task assignment mechanism for multi-load Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) operation in manufacturing industry. The architecture is based on multi-agent system (MAS) while the task assignment is based on combinatorial auction method. Additionally, necessary improvement have been made to the standard combinatorial auction method to support dynamic attributes of AGV task assignment mechanism.