TY - JOUR
T1 - Platform Independent Multi-Agent System for Robust Networks of Production Systems
AU - Cruz Salazar, Luis Alberto
AU - Mayer, Felix
AU - Schütz, Daniel
AU - Vogel-Heuser, Birgit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Automation
KW - Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
KW - Multi-Agent Systems
KW - Production control
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052937941&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.08.359
DO - 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.08.359
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052937941
SN - 2405-8963
VL - 51
SP - 1261
EP - 1268
JO - 16th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing INCOM 2018: Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 June 2018
JF - 16th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing INCOM 2018: Bergamo, Italy, 11-13 June 2018
IS - 11
ER -