Distributed manufacturing control using fuzzy contract net

Author

Vojdani, Nina

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. I, Dortmund Univ., Germany

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

8-11 Sep 1996

Firstpage

1655

Abstract

The manufacturing industry undertakes the most intensive and comprehensive steps towards rationalization. The development towards intelligent control of manufacturing and logistics processes and quick reaction on rapid changes of production parameters require more efficient and intelligent manufacturing control systems in order to achieve maximum results. A fuzzy contract net based system devoted to solving the scheduling problem in a variety of manufacturing environments has been developed at the University of Dortmund providing workers with current manufacturing schedules and resource-availability reports. It features an architecture inspired by the contract net described by Smith and Davis and a hierarchical fuzzy model. In general the contract net approach models transfer of control in a distributed system with the metaphor of negotiation among autonomous intelligent beings

Keywords

cooperative systems; distributed control; fuzzy logic; intelligent control; knowledge based systems; production control; autonomous intelligent beings; distributed manufacturing control; fuzzy contract net; hierarchical fuzzy model; intelligent manufacturing control systems; logistics processes; negotiation; rationalization; resource-availability reports; scheduling problem; Contracts; Distributed control; Fuzzy control; Intelligent control; Intelligent manufacturing systems; Job shop scheduling; Logistics; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Production systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fuzzy Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3645-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUZZY.1996.552618

Filename

552618