Distributed Architecture for Modeling and Simulation of Autonomous Multi-agent Multi-Physics Systems

Abstract

The need for Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is seen in many diverse applications such multi-agent systems, robotics, control systems, software engineering, complex adaptive systems, homeland security, and many others. In this paper we introduce an architecture for distributed simulation of multi-agent systems called Virtual Laboratory (V-Lab®), based on discrete event system specification (DEVS). V-Lab® is a test bed for many control algorithms and allows the user to demonstrate the working of several soft-computing methodologies like fuzzy logic, learning automata, neural networks, genetic algorithms, etc. applied to multi-agent systems. DEVS defines a framework for discrete event simulation and V-Lab® defines a framework for distributed simulation for multi-agent autonomous systems.