A multi-agent and holonic approach for intelligent scheduling in agile manufacturing environments

Author

Yanhong, Wang ; Fang, Huang ; Caowan, Yin ; Yantao, Tian

Author_Institution

Lab. of Reconfigurable Manuf. Syst., Shenyang Inst. of Autom., China

Volume

4

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

3071

Abstract

An agile production scheduling system is developed using the notion which combines the multi-agent paradigm and the holonic manufacturing concept. A system framework with several "holonic-agents" is described firstly to show how the two paradigms are amalgamated. Then the distributed ruler based mechanism is proposed to coordinate behaviors of these holonic-agents in order to realize a predictable and nearly optimal scheduling with agility and adaptability. The object-oriented and CORBA based technique is also discussed briefly to construct a prototype system for the presented approach. Satisfactory conclusions are drawn from experiments and a short analysis of them is given at the end of the paper.

Keywords

distributed object management; flexible manufacturing systems; multi-agent systems; production control; scheduling; CORBA; agile manufacturing environments; agile production scheduling system; distributed ruler based mechanism; experiments; holonic manufacturing concept; holonic-agents; intelligent scheduling; multi-agent system; object-oriented technique; optimal scheduling; prototype system; Agile manufacturing; Contracts; Intelligent agent; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing systems; Multiagent systems; Optimal scheduling; Production systems; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control and Automation, 2002. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7268-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCICA.2002.1020094

Filename

1020094