Paper Info
Title
Using A Discrete-Event System Formalism For The Multi-Agent Control Of Manufacturing Systems
Abstract
In the area of Heterarchical Manufacturing Systems modelling and control, a relatively new paradigm is that of Multi-Agent Systems. Many efforts have been made to define the autonomous agents concurrently operating in the system and the relations between them. But few results in the current literature define a formal and unambiguous way to model a Multi-Agent System, which can be used for the real-time simulation and control of flexible manufacturing environments. To this aim, this paper extends and develops some results previously obtained by the same authors, to define a discrete event system model of the main distributed agents controlling a manufacturing system. The main mechanism of interaction between three classes of agents is presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/1-4020-4543-3_15
INFORMATICS IN CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS I
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multi-Agent Systems, discrete event dynamic systems, distributed manufacturing control, Heterarchical Manufacturing Systems
Discrete event system,Multi agent control,Manufacturing systems,Control engineering,Engineering,Formalism (philosophy)
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
16
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guido Maione15412.37
David Naso2385.24