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This paper focuses on reconfiguration aspects of agent-based industrial control systems. Reconfiguration is the ability of the control system to modify its behavior to cope with unusual conditions and changes of the production environment like machine breakdowns, product innovations, rush orders, etc. This paper presents a multiagent system dedicated to material flow control-manufacturing agent simulation tool (MAST)-and discusses in detail how agents efficiently cope with the dynamic reconfiguration. Two scenarios are discussed: 1) the automatic reconfiguration of the transportation paths carried out by agents in case of failures and 2) the structural reconfiguration enabling online addition, removal, or reconnection of equipment or transportation paths on the factory floor. Two proof-of-concept applications of MAST in University of Cambridge's and Vienna University of Technology's testbeds are described.
Published in:
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:40
,
Issue:
2
)
Date of Publication: March 2010
- Page(s):
- 213 - 223
- ISSN :
- 1083-4427
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 11138013
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/TSMCA.2009.2034863
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Publication :
- 15 December 2009
- Date of Current Version :
- 17 February 2010
- Issue Date :
- March 2010
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
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