A distributed task planning method for autonomous agents in a FMS

Author

Hahndel, Stefan ; Levi, Paul

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Inf., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

12-16 Sep 1994

Firstpage

1285

Abstract

We present an approach of a distributed planning method to solve dynamically some typical tasks of a production planning system in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) at control level without using a fixed central component during planning and execution of orders received by one or several production planning systems above the control level. To achieve this, a flexible manufacturing system has been modelled as a multi-agent system, while the planning method we present uses the structure of manufacturing plans to coordinate properly their activities through negotiation among the agents. This has been implemented and tested in an object-oriented simulation environment

Keywords

computer aided production planning; cooperative systems; distributed control; flexible manufacturing systems; object-oriented programming; production control; simulation; FMS; autonomous agents; distributed task planning; flexible manufacturing system; multi-agent system; object-oriented simulation; production control; production planning system; scheduling; Autonomous agents; Centralized control; Control systems; Flexible manufacturing systems; Intelligent robots; Manufacturing systems; Object oriented modeling; Power system planning; Production planning; Virtual manufacturing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems '94. 'Advanced Robotic Systems and the Real World', IROS '94. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ/GI International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1933-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.1994.407462

Filename

407462