Title :
A hybrid software agent model for decentralized control
Author :
Balduzzi, Fabio ; Brugali, Davide
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Autom. e Inf., Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Abstract :
We present an approach to the control of manufacturing systems via agent interactions. Based on a decentralized control strategy the agents can collaborate with each other conveniently. We provide a distributed architecture to model the elementary services (an unreliable machine coupled with a finite buffer) in terms of hybrid automata which are co-operating in a manufacturing system, and we show how the agents can efficiently make their control decisions using their local rules.
Keywords :
automata theory; decentralised control; discrete event systems; divide and conquer methods; multi-agent systems; process control; production control; software agents; agent interactions; control decisions; distributed architecture; hybrid automata; hybrid software agent model; local rules; manufacturing systems; Automatic control; Centralized control; Collaboration; Communication system control; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Distributed control; Manufacturing systems; Optimized production technology; Software agents;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6576-3
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.2001.932654
