Agent-Based Cloud Computing Systems for Traffic Management

Abstract

The need for a safe and economically efficient traffic represents a challenge for creating traffic management systems. This paper deals with merging three basic concepts, namely cloud-based technologies, agent-based approaches and fuzzy cognitive maps to solve the localisation and path planing for several vehicles of different types in the form of independent agents, which communicate with a supervisory system located on the cloud. The proposed system was directly tested on a playground and obtained results were analysed using several selected criteria. Finally, some further possibilities of potential utilization and future research are mentioned.