Title :
On the Sensorial Integration for a Holonic Manufacturing System
Author :
Panescu, Doru ; Varvara, Gabriela
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom. Control & Appl. Inf., Gheorghe Asachi Tech. Univ. of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
Abstract :
The paper proposes a new method for sensorial integration within manufacturing systems. The control scheme is a holonic one, namely a PROSA reference architecture is considered. Some principles regarding the way the coordination and planning mechanisms have to be adapted for an enhanced sensorial integration are investigated. These refer a plan-space planning approach that operates with partially specified plans, and an extended form of the contract net protocol used to manage the holons´ agents cooperation activities. The agent based implementation, which was made in the Jack software environment, was a further support for the sensorial information use by the holonic system deliberative components.
Keywords :
manufacturing systems; multi-agent systems; protocols; Jack agents; Jack software environment; PROSA reference architecture; contract net protocol; coordination mechanisms; holonic manufacturing system; holons agents cooperation activities; plan-space planning; planning mechanisms; sensorial integration; Automatic control; Communication system control; Computational modeling; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer simulation; Contracts; Informatics; Lifting equipment; Manufacturing systems; Protocols; Jack agents; holonic manufacturing system; planning; sensorial integration;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Modeling and Simulation, 2009. EMS '09. Third UKSim European Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Athens
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5345-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3886-0
DOI :
10.1109/EMS.2009.57
