Blockchain-based protocol of autonomous business activity for multi-agent systems consisting of UAVs
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This article describes a method of organizing the communication protocol, which allows agents of the multiagent system (MAS) to make decisions about their actions. Plan activities and interact with each other to perform tasks of modern industrial and business processes based on cyber-physical systems. The main attention is paid to those multi-agent systems, where autonomous agents - robots or smart things - participate in business processes among people, and their activities are organized in an unreliable and unknown environment. The article shows, how to organize a communication system between agents in a peer-to-peer network using the decentralized Ethereum Blochchain technology and smart contracts. The architecture of protocol of autonomous business activity, based on this communication method is given. As a result, the experience of implementation an autonomous economic system with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is described.
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- Authors
- Kapitonov, A., Lonshakov, S., Krupenkin, A., & Berman, I.
- Affiliations
- ITMO University (RU)
- Venue
- 2017 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2017-10
- Pages
- 84-89
- OpenAlex
- W2767643860
- Cited by
- 127
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 7
- FWCI
- 10.42
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Control and Systems Engineering › Robotics and Automated Systems
- Keywords
- blockchain, multi-agent systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, communication protocols, Ethereum smart contracts, peer-to-peer networks, decentralized systems, cyber-physical systems, agent decision-making
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