TY - GEN
T1 - Key directions for industrial agent based cyber-physical production systems
AU - Karnouskos, Stamatis
AU - Ribeiro, Luis
AU - Leitao, Paulo
AU - Luder, Arndt
AU - Vogel-Heuser, Birgit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - Rapid technology advances and increasing digitalization bring new opportunities but also put new challenges to modern production systems. Industrial agent concepts and technologies can be used to address the needs of modern Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS). To do so, their interplay, especially in industrial settings, needs to be better understood and assessed. Key directions for investigations that are relevant for industrial agent based CPPS are analyzed in this work, mainly the design patterns, interfaces between agents and CPPS, metrics to evaluate the quality of agent based CPPS, and distributed intelligence implemented in or by agents. Although efforts exist both in agent and CPPS domains, their amalgamation still has several aspects that are under-investigated, especially when considering large-scale systems of CPPS, and the proposed four directions discussed in this work, seem promising to address several of the key underlying challenges.
AB - Rapid technology advances and increasing digitalization bring new opportunities but also put new challenges to modern production systems. Industrial agent concepts and technologies can be used to address the needs of modern Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS). To do so, their interplay, especially in industrial settings, needs to be better understood and assessed. Key directions for investigations that are relevant for industrial agent based CPPS are analyzed in this work, mainly the design patterns, interfaces between agents and CPPS, metrics to evaluate the quality of agent based CPPS, and distributed intelligence implemented in or by agents. Although efforts exist both in agent and CPPS domains, their amalgamation still has several aspects that are under-investigated, especially when considering large-scale systems of CPPS, and the proposed four directions discussed in this work, seem promising to address several of the key underlying challenges.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85070910850&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICPHYS.2019.8780360
DO - 10.1109/ICPHYS.2019.8780360
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85070910850
T3 - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber Physical Systems, ICPS 2019
SP - 17
EP - 22
BT - Proceedings - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber Physical Systems, ICPS 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber Physical Systems, ICPS 2019
Y2 - 6 May 2019 through 9 May 2019
ER -