Some points regarding the design and implementation of holonic manufacturing systems are presented. As the holonic approach supposes a distributed architecture regarding both planning and execution, certain methods and techniques of multi-agent systems can be used. These need specific adaptations, and the paper is focused on describing how the planning solution is conceived in order to obtain the proper coordination in the holonic system and the way communication can be solved using a CORBA based service oriented architecture. The proposed scheme is exemplified in the case of the resource holons' materialization. The developed architecture was tested on a manufacturing system with real industrial equipment. The respective system and the considered manufacturing scenarios constitute a valuable testbed for the validation of the holonic method.
This contribution discusses some important issues of the Holonic Manufacturing Systems. The respective approach can bring about some features requested by the present conditions in manufacturing. An appropriate planning mechanism is designed, together with the execution cycle of the agents used as the holons' deliberative part. The proposed planning and coordination mechanism is implemented in an agent specific environment. The implementation details clarifies the way the proposed solution is to be carried out, conducting to a collaborative robotic system as the main part of an experimental manufacturing system.
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