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«effector»
CheckPlatform
«event»
Dispatch
«ev
e
nt»
Communicate
«event»
Start
«effector»
Dispatch
«effector»
Communicate
Knowledge
«event»
Order
«sensor»
TakeOrder
Figure A.5:
Sensor-effector-chains of the warehouse manager agent.
Worker allocation table = worker
→
(command
|
available
)
The worker allocation table contains information about all workers,
i. e., if they are currently executing a command or not.
Forklift allocation table = forklift
→
(command
|
available
)
Same as worker allocation table.
Figure A.5 illustrates the behavior of the warehouse manager agent.
As depicted, it is equipped with three effectors and one sensor:
Once the warehouse manager agent has received a Start-event,
the
Dispatch
-effector takes into account the internal knowledge
(especially open orders) and is responsible for the whole planning
process. As dispatching is a time-consuming process, each action of
this effector takes 30 seconds (300 time steps).
The
Communicate
-effector communicates devised plans to the re-
spective agents. Each activation takes 5 seconds (50 time steps).
