Dynamic coalitions enable autonomous domains to achieve common objectives by sharing resources based on negotiated resource-sharing agreements. A major requirement for administering dynamic coalitions is the availability of a comprehensive set of access control tools. In this paper we discuss the design, implementation, evaluation, and demonstration of such tools. In particular, we have develop...

An approach to the control of an autonomous process with human supervision is presented. The process is modelled as a discrete event system which allows for human intervention. For eeective control, the autonomous system should control most of the process, with the human only interfering in an unmodelled situation. This shared control must therefore allow the human to innuence the autonomous sy...

The process of production planning and control contributes significantly to the efficiency of modern production systems. However, common central planning methods in industrial application show deficits in complex and dynamic production environments. In contrast to prevailing central control methods, approaches of autonomous control offer the chance to cope with these dynamic conditions more eff...

This manuscript addresses trajectory tracking problem of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) on the horizontal plane. Adaptive sliding mode control is employed in order to achieve a robust behavior against some uncertainty and ocean current disturbances, assuming that disturbance and its derivative are bounded by unknown boundary levels. The proposed approach is based on a dual layer adaptive...

Autonomous control in logistics enables single logistics objects to control the production and transportation process. This shift from central planning to decentralized control in real-time offers many possibilities to cope with highly dynamic and complex systems. The algorithms that define the decision behavior of each logistics object, autonomous control methods, play a key role in the succes...

Nowadays more and more attention is given to energy development problems. Modern ways of producing energy are bounded by planet’s resources of coal, natural gas and petroleum, and harmful effects of waste produced by energy industry forced the increasing growth of alternate ways of energy development, such as wind farms, geothermal and solar energy, etc. The article considers a solution the pro...

Hybrid AC/DC microgrids facilitate the procedure of DC power connection into the conventional AC power system by developing the distributed generations (DGs) technologies. The conversion processes between AC and DC electrical powers are more convenient by hybrid systems. In this paper, an energy management system (EMS) for a hybrid microgrid network is proposed due to the optimal utilization of...

The purpose of this study is to design an intelligent control system to guide the overtaking maneuver with a higher performance than the existing systems. Unlike the existing models which consider constant values for some of the effective variables of this behavior, in this paper, a neural network model is designed based on the real overtaking data using instantaneous values for variables. A fu...