Multiple agent hybrid control for manufacturing systems

We discuss how our generic hybrid control architecture, the mulitple agent hybrid control architecture (MAHCA), can be implemented to capture the complexity of the manufacturing process in an incremental fashion. We provide an example of how a MAHCA network of agents can be used to solve a planning, scheduling and control problem. MAHCA allows for the online reactive matching of current logic and continuum constraints from plant sensors with user-defined logic. The MAHCA architecture supports incremental expansion of new components with greatly reduced requirements for expensive experimentation validation.