Authors:
Guido Maione
1
and
David Naso
2
Affiliations:
1
DIASS, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
;
2
DEE, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Keyword(s):
Multi-Agent Systems, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, Distributed Manufacturing Control, Heterarchical Manufacturing Systems.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Computational Intelligence
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
;
Soft Computing
;
Software Agents for Intelligent Control Systems
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.