Autonomously controlled production systems—Influence of autonomous control level on logistic performance

Autonomous control intends to improve production systems performance by distributed and flexible coping of complexity. Different autonomous control levels and control strategies are evaluated. The evaluation system benchmarks the level of logistic target achievement related to the level of complexity and the level of autonomous control. Based on real production data, simulation models were built. The level of autonomous control in these models is increased stepwise by expanding the number of autonomously controlled elements. For each level of autonomous control, three control strategies are implemented and compared to the performance of conventional control.