Platform Independent Multi-Agent System for Robust Networks of Production Systems

Luis Alberto Cruz Salazar, Felix Mayer, Daniel Schütz, Birgit Vogel-Heuser

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Abstract

The production of customized products requires a flexible production process. Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are currently seen as one possibility to achieve this goal, since flexibility for the production processes can be achieved by enabling cross-company collaboration. However, to fully implement CPPS for heterogeneous production systems an application and hardware platform independent, robust, and distributed software solution is required. This paper proposes a novel design and implementation for a Multi-Agent System (MAS), that can be used to create application independent CPPS. To support a variety of hardware platforms, the MAS was designed as a lightweight implementation in the programming language ANSI C. The proposed concept was evaluated by different use cases and experiments, which, in a first step, evaluated the efficiency of design and implementation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1261-1268
Number of pages8
Journal16th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing INCOM 2018: Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 June 2018
Volume51
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

Keywords

  • Automation
  • Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Production control

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