Highly reconfigurable production systems controlled by real-time agents

Schütz, Daniel; Schraufstetter, M.; Folmer, Jens; Vogel‐Heuser, Birgit; Gmeiner, Thomas; Shea, Kristina

doi:10.1109/etfa.2011.6058991

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“…This architecture provides the flexibility, reliability, and reconfigurability for the production systems. The work of Schütz [28], based on Wannagat, proposes a heterarchical approach about a PLC-Agent-System with individual knowledge-based agents. Main features of the approach are flexibility and reconfigurability.…”

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Cyber-physical production systems architecture based on multi-agent’s design pattern—comparison of selected approaches mapping four agent patterns

Salazar

Ryashentseva

Lüder

et al. 2019

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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The growing complexity of production systems requires appropriate control architectures that allow flexible adaptation during their runtime. Although cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) provide the means to cope with complexity and flexibility, the migration with existing control systems is still a challenge. The term CPPS denotes a mechatronic system (physical world) coupled with software entities and digital information (cyber part), both enabling the smart factory concept for the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) paradigm. In this regard, design patterns could help developers to build their software with common solutions for manufacturing control derived from experiences. We provide a description and comparison of the already existing multi-agent systems (MAS) design patterns, which were collected and classified by introducing two classification criteria to support MAS developers. The applicability of these criteria is shown in the case of specific example architectures from the lower and higher control levels. The authors, together with experts from the German Agent Systems committee FA 5.15, gathered more than twenty MAS patterns, evaluated, and compared four selected patterns with the presented criteria and terminology. The main contribution is a CPPS architecture that fulfills requirements related to the era of smart factories, as well as the Reference Architectural Model I4.0 (RAMI 4.0). The conclusions indicate that agent-based patterns greatly benefit the CPPS design. In addition, it is shown that manufacturing based on MAS is a good way to address complex requests of the CPPS development.

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Cyber-physical production systems architecture based on multi-agent’s design pattern—comparison of selected approaches mapping four agent patterns

Salazar

Ryashentseva

Lüder

et al. 2019

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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“…Schütz et al [6] propose an agent-based control system for production planning and execution of flexible manufacturing systems in which agents are operational in real-time and can be directly implemented on PLCs. In this method, they initially extract machine properties from CAD files and generate a hierarchical SysML model which can instantiate agents semi-automatically.…”

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Model-based customisation of intelligent mechatronic systems using SysML

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Sorouri

Vyatkin

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE 18th Conference on Emerging Technologies &Amp; Factory Automation (ETFA)

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This paper presents a model-based design approach for description of mechatronic systems using System Modeling Language (SysML) in order to facilitate modification and customization of existing intelligent mechatronic components and their use in new applications. This approach enables re-use and integration of the existing mechatronic software components to meet system design requirements and minimize the design and commissioning complexity of the control systems. A case study with a delta robot used in a colour sorting application demonstrates how its control system is tailored to meet the desired system behaviour.

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“…present an agent-based approach for production planning and execution of flexible manufacturing system. The advantage of this method is direct implementation of agents on a PLC which result in real-time operation and increases the flexibility and dependability of the system [19].…”

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Rule-based composition of intelligent mechatronic components in manufacturing systems using prolog

Sorouri

Vyatkin

Salčić

2013

2013 11th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)

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This paper proposes a rule-based approach for automatic configuration of mechatronic components in a novel agent-based manufacturing automation architecture known as MIRA, implemented using Prolog. Through this method, MIRAs are enriched with semantic knowledge representation and, based on that, perform some reasoning and decision making (both at the design stage and even during the operation) to achieve the desired goals. This approach is illustrated in a simple case study in which composition of a reconfigurable pick-and-place robot with various linear cylinders is achieved through rule-based reasoning.

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Highly reconfigurable production systems controlled by real-time agents

Cited by 17 publications

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Cyber-physical production systems architecture based on multi-agent’s design pattern—comparison of selected approaches mapping four agent patterns

Cyber-physical production systems architecture based on multi-agent’s design pattern—comparison of selected approaches mapping four agent patterns

Model-based customisation of intelligent mechatronic systems using SysML

Rule-based composition of intelligent mechatronic components in manufacturing systems using prolog

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