Authors:
            
                    Tianhao Tang
                    
                        
                    
                     and
                
                    Gang Yao
                    
                        
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliation:
            
                    
                        
                    
                    Shanghai Maritime University, China
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Multi-agent system, Faults tolerant control, Communication, Coalition, FIPA Agent Platform.
        
        
            
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                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
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                        Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
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                        Intelligent Fault Detection and Identification
                    ; 
                        Software Agents for Intelligent Control Systems
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                This paper presents a hybrid intelligent multi-agent method for marine faults tolerant control (FTC). A new FTC schema, implemented by different kinds of agent, is discussed as well as the structure and functions of those agents, which have been encapsulated with intelligent algorithms to carry out different aspects in FTC. These agents could, having a purpose of trying to earn payoff as much as possible in a mission, communicate and form a coalition via negotiation when they find cooperation would bring them more benefits. Simulation experiments and its results are shown at last to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed system.