@inbook{4878abfb30884805b742a8638649503d,
title = "Handover Abilities in Reconfigurable Material Flow Systems for Topology Computing",
abstract = "In the scope of Industry 4.0, flexible manufacturing systems, including their internal Material Flow Systems (MFSs), are required. One approach to design MFSs in a reconfigurable manner is the use of a modularized and decentralized control architecture based on software agents. For this purpose, the MFS hardware is divided into so-called Material Flow Modules (MFMs), each being controlled by a dedicated software agent. To achieve the desired material flow in an MFS by means of an agent-based control, handover processes between different MFMs have to be considered in detail. This requires the correct identification of connections between neighboring MFMs and the analysis, whether the respective MFMs are able to coordinate a handover depending on their capabilities. This paper presents a concept for considering different handover capabilities of MFMs and their significance for deriving an MFS{\textquoteright}s current topology as well as the actuator control during the handover process through MFM agents.",
keywords = "Decentralized control, IEC 61131-3, Logistics, Material Flow Systems, Multi Agent Systems, Reconfigurability, Topology detection",
author = "Juliane Fischer and Haitham Elfaham and Ulrich Epple and Birgit Vogel-Heuser",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-44783-0_43",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Logistics",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
pages = "451--461",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Logistics",
}