Title :
Decentralized Autonomous-Agent-Based Infrastructure for Agile Multiparallel Manufacturing
Author :
Van Moergestel, Leo ; Puik, Erik ; Telgen, Daniël ; Meyer, John-Jules
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microsyst. Technol., Utrecht Univ. of Appl. Sci., Utrecht, Netherlands
Abstract :
This paper describes an agent-based software infrastructure for agile industrial production. This production is done on special devices called equiplets. A grid of these equiplets connected by a fast network is capable of producing a variety of different products in parallel. The multi-agent-based underlying systems uses two kinds of agents: an agent representing the product and an agent representing the equiplet.
Keywords :
agile manufacturing; multi-agent systems; production engineering computing; software agents; agent-based software infrastructure; agile industrial production; agile multiparallel manufacturing; decentralized autonomous agent-based infrastructure; equiplets; fast network; multiagent-based underlying systems; Automation; Hardware; Production; Sensors; Servers; Software; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS), 2011 10th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo & Hiroshima
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-213-4
DOI :
10.1109/ISADS.2011.38
