Agents enabling cyber-physical production systems

Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Jay Lee, Paulo Leitão

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Abstract

In order to be prepared for future challenges facing the industrial production domain, Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) consisting of intelligent entities which collaborate and exchange information globally are being proclaimed recently as part of Industrie 4.0. In this article the requirements of CPPS and abilities of agents as enabling technology are discussed. The applicability of agents for realizing CPPS is exemplarily shown based on three selected use cases with different requirements regarding real-time and dependability. The paper finally concludes with opportunities and open research issues that need to be faced in order to achieve agent-based CPPSs.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)777-789
Number of pages13
JournalAt-Automatisierungstechnik
Volume63
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Oct 2015

Keywords

  • Cyber-physical production systems
  • Industrie 4.0
  • agent
  • multi-agent systems

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