DocumentCode :
1590292
Title :
An agent-based interaction-oriented shop floor to support emergent diagnosis
Author :
Ribeiro, Luis ; Barata, José ; Ferreira, João
Author_Institution :
UNINOVA Inst., Portugal
fYear :
2010
Firstpage :
189
Lastpage :
194
Abstract :
The emerging production paradigms, potentiated by the advances in Information Technologies (IT), especially in web related standards and technologies as well as the progressive acceptance of the multiagent systems (MAS) concept and related technologies, envision collections of modules whose individual and collective function adapts and evolves ensuring the fitness and adequacy of the shop floor in tackling profitable but volatile business opportunities. Despite the richness of the interactions and the effort set in modeling them, their potential to favor fault propagation and interference, in these complex environments, has been ignored from a diagnostic point of view. To avoid corrupting the distributed nature of the system any diagnostic method/tool should necessarily adapt and evolve. This implies that the diagnostic model should emerge in system rather than being imposed. In the present paper the authors contend that there is added value in further considering interactions and modeling the network effect of interactions for the purpose of diagnosing the system. In this context, an agent-based architecture is proposed to support an emergent diagnostic model.
Keywords :
Internet; information technology; intelligent manufacturing systems; multi-agent systems; production engineering computing; agent-based architecture; business opportunity; emergent diagnosis; fault interference; fault propagation; information technology; multiagent system; shop floor; Artificial intelligence; Assembly systems; Automatic control; Control systems; Hardware; Logic; Manufacturing systems; Monitoring; Production systems; Scalability;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Osaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7298-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/INDIN.2010.5549436
Filename :
5549436
Link To Document :
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