Fuzzy agents communities for product integrated configuration

Author

Fougères, Alain-Jérôme ; Ostrosi, Egon

Author_Institution

Res. LaboratoryM3M, Univ. of Technol. of Belfort-Montbeliard, Belfort, France

fYear

2011

fDate

22-24 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

11

Abstract

This paper proposes fuzzy agents to assist collaborative design for product integrated configuration. More effective design decisions can be made by fuzzy agents when fuzzy design information is considered in a fuzzy interaction based process and fuzzy evolving systems. Modelling of a fuzzy agent-based system, called F_APIC (Fuzzy Agents for Product Integrated Configuration), is presented. In F_APIC, there are four fuzzy communities of fuzzy agents involved in specification, function, physical solution and domain constraint. During design process, cooperation between fuzzy agents grouped in fuzzy communities permit to emerge the consensual physical solutions to optimally configure a product. A case study for a “Chair configuration” illustrates the proposed approach.

Keywords

fuzzy set theory; groupware; multi-agent systems; product design; production engineering computing; F_APIC; chair configuration; collaborative design; fuzzy agents communities; fuzzy communities; fuzzy design information; fuzzy evolving systems; fuzzy interaction based process; product integrated configuration; Assembly; Communities; Intelligent systems; Production; Recycling; Shape; Vectors; communities of agents; cooperative agents; distributed design process; fuzzy agents; product configuration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), 2011 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cordoba

ISSN

2164-7143

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1676-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISDA.2011.6121622

Filename

6121622