Coalitions of manufacturing components for shop floor agility - the CoBASA architecture

Transitioning From Standard Automation Solutions to Cyber-Physical Production Systems: An Assessment of Critical Conceptual and Technical Challenges

“…It is important, however, to understand the assumptions and decomposition styles that have been considered in previous research. Well known reference architectures, including but not limited to [18], [32], [33], [7], [34], [35] have, under different nomenclatures, defined the smallest functional entity as a Resource Holon or Agent which may be decomposed into itself and coordinated by some higher abstraction entity such as an Order Holon, a Coalition Leader Agent or a Product Agent/Holon, etc. Resources are also often specialized as value-added resources, which abstract transformative processes, and logistic resources, which abstract transportation processes.…”

“…The most important design feature to attain such a compromise is to endow components in each layer with enough autonomy to enact an adaptive response at the face of disturbances, enabling them to recover from localized changes without having to rely on the components on the layer above. Examples of architectures exploring hierarchical design under highly adaptive systems including plug and produce can be found in [34], [40], [41] Semi-Heterarchical solutions such as [33] have a tremendous potential for further enhancing the system response under disturbances. These approaches can change the organizational structure of the system to address changing production conditions and particularly disturbances.…”

Recent Developments and Future Trends of Industrial Agents

“…The developed multi-agent system follows the CoBASA architecture [23], and was implemented by using the JADE platform. Another example is the implementation of a multi-agent manufacturing control system following the ADACOR holonic architecture [24] in a real laboratorial flexible manufacturing system at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal [25].…”

Collaborative routing of products using a self-organizing mechatronic agent framework—A simulation study

“…This research has generated a wide range of system specific architectures [22] and set of more generic reference architectures among which one may mention: PROSA [23], HCBA [24], ADACOR [25], COBASA [26], Rockwell Automation Agents [27] and, more recently, ORCA-FMS [4] and the IDEAS Architecture [28]. The architectural design at this level is particularly relevant since it bridges the gap between more abstract concepts and paradigms, such as Holonic Manufacturing Systems [29], Bionic Manufacturing Systems [30], Evolvable Production Systems [31], and system engineering.…”