Autonomy and coordination mechanism in Virtual Production Systems

In recent years, Virtual Production Systems (VPSs), which construct new manufacturing systems in response to changing market dynamics, have attracted considerable attention. Especially the control mechanism of VPSs has been of significant important. A control architecture based on multi-agent technology is built to support the control mechanism to schedule tasks and resources in VPSs, which is based on multi-agent technology and composed of order agent, coordination agent, task agent and resource agent. To optimize the productivity on the premise that the tasks can be completed on time, the autonomy and coordination mechanism is applied to coordinating and scheduling the requests from different tasks and resources, which is based on the contract net protocol.