Implementing a contract-based multi-agent approach for shop floor agility

Author

Barata, José ; Camarinha-Matos, L.M.

Author_Institution

FCT, New Univ. of Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal

fYear

2002

fDate

2-6 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

639

Lastpage

645

Abstract

This paper describes implementation approaches for a multi-agent shop floor control architecture supported by cooperation contracts and designed to support agile manufacturing. The architecture being proposed is based on the concepts of cluster, consortium, manufacturing components, manufacturing resource agent, agent machine interface, and contracts, which are used to govern the skills brought to the consortium or cluster. The basic architecture for each agent is indicated and analysed as well as the knowledge model and ontologies used. Finally the development environment is presented and some practical results are shown.

Keywords

computer integrated manufacturing; flexible manufacturing systems; multi-agent systems; production control; agent machine interface; agile manufacturing; cluster; consortium; contract-based multi-agent approach; contracts; cooperation contracts; manufacturing resource agent; ontologies; shop floor agility; shop floor control architecture; Agile manufacturing; Companies; Contracts; Control systems; Costs; Dynamic programming; Flexible manufacturing systems; Ontologies; Protection; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2002. Proceedings. 13th International Workshop on

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1668-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2002.1045970

Filename

1045970