DocumentCode
1747369
Title
A hybrid software agent model for decentralized control
Author
Balduzzi, Fabio ; Brugali, Davide
Author_Institution
Dipartimento di Autom. e Inf., Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Volume
1
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
836
Abstract
We present an approach to the control of manufacturing systems via agent interactions. Based on a decentralized control strategy the agents can collaborate with each other conveniently. We provide a distributed architecture to model the elementary services (an unreliable machine coupled with a finite buffer) in terms of hybrid automata which are co-operating in a manufacturing system, and we show how the agents can efficiently make their control decisions using their local rules.
Keywords
automata theory; decentralised control; discrete event systems; divide and conquer methods; multi-agent systems; process control; production control; software agents; agent interactions; control decisions; distributed architecture; hybrid automata; hybrid software agent model; local rules; manufacturing systems; Automatic control; Centralized control; Collaboration; Communication system control; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Distributed control; Manufacturing systems; Optimized production technology; Software agents;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on
ISSN
1050-4729
Print_ISBN
0-7803-6576-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ROBOT.2001.932654
Filename
932654
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