USING A DISCRETE-EVENT SYSTEM FORMALISM FOR THE MULTI-AGENT CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

Guido Maione, David Naso

2004

Abstract

In the area of Heterarchical Manufacturing Systems Modeling 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.

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Maione G. and Naso D. (2004). USING A DISCRETE-EVENT SYSTEM FORMALISM FOR THE MULTI-AGENT CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 972-8865-12-0, pages 84-91. DOI: 10.5220/0001145400840091


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@conference{icinco04,
author={Guido Maione and David Naso},
title={USING A DISCRETE-EVENT SYSTEM FORMALISM FOR THE MULTI-AGENT CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2004},
pages={84-91},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001145400840091},
isbn={972-8865-12-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - USING A DISCRETE-EVENT SYSTEM FORMALISM FOR THE MULTI-AGENT CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
SN - 972-8865-12-0
AU - Maione G.
AU - Naso D.
PY - 2004
SP - 84
EP - 91
DO - 10.5220/0001145400840091