Modelling Agents in Hard Real-Time Environments

Over the last few years more complex techniques have been used to develop hard real-time systems, and the multi-agent system paradigm seems to be an appropriate approach to be applied in this area. The temporal restrictions of these systems made necessary to build agents architectures that satisfy these restrictions. A formal Agent architecture to model hard-real time systems is proposed in this paper. A prototype that follows this agent architecture and works in a hard real-time environment has been implemented. Finally, a study case is described to show the design agent process.

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