Dynamic Resource Task Negotiation to Enable Product Agent Exploration in Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems

Ilya Kovalenko; Daria Ryashentseva; Birgit Vogel-Heuser; Dawn Tilbury; Kira Barton

doi:10.1109/LRA.2019.2921947

Dynamic Resource Task Negotiation to Enable Product Agent Exploration in Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems

Ilya Kovalenko, Daria Ryashentseva, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Dawn Tilbury, Kira Barton

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Abstract

Distributed multi-agent control has been proposed to improve the flexibility of manufacturing systems. Two important components of this control strategy are product agents, representing physical parts in the system, and resource agents, representing the system resources. Product agents request actions from resource agents to guide physical parts through the manufacturing system. Before requesting specific actions, a product agent must effectively communicate with the system's resource agents to understand the capabilities of the resources on the plant floor. In this letter, an approach to product agent exploration based on a network of resource agents is described and analyzed. In addition, results and insights from an implementation of the proposed exploration methodology in a manufacturing system are presented.

Original language	English
Article number	8733849
Pages (from-to)	2854-2861
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2921947
State	Published - Jul 2019

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Agent-based systems
autonomous agents
intelligent and flexible manufacturing

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