Dynamic scheduling study on engineering machinery of clusters using multi-agent system ant algorithm

In the process of road surface construction, dispatchers' scheduling was experiential and blindfold in some degree and static scheduling restricted the continuity of the construction. Serious problems such as labor holdup, material awaiting and scheduling delay could occur when the old scheduling technique was used. This paper presents ant colony algorithm based on MAS that has the abilities of intelligentized modeling and dynamic scheduling. MAS model deals with single agent's communication and corresponding in engineering machinery of clusters firstly, next we apply ant colony algorithm to solve dynamic scheduling in the plant. Ant colony algorithm can optimize the match of agents and make the system dynamic balance. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with MATLAB simulations.