A context-dependent agent in consideration of the buffer usage for real-time scheduling in manufacturing systems

Author

Kitayama, Tomohiro ; Miyamoto, Toshiyuki ; Kumagai, Sadatoshi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

5-7 Aug. 2002

Firstpage

835

Abstract

A context-dependent agent (CDA) has the ability to change its controller depending on the system status. We have designed a CDA for the real-time scheduling problem of an autonomous distributed job-shop manufacturing system, that considers both buffer usage and the makespan. This paper presents a CDA architecture and results of an extensive evaluation.

Keywords

computer integrated manufacturing; dispatching; distributed control; linear programming; multi-agent systems; production control; real-time systems; autonomous distributed job-shop manufacturing system; buffer usage; context-dependent agent; controller change; dispatch indices; intelligent manufacturing systems; linear programming filtering rule; makespan; manufacturing systems; multiple intelligent agents; real-time scheduling; real-time scheduling problem; Add-drop multiplexers; Communication system control; Control systems; Intelligent agent; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing systems; Mass production; Production systems; Real time systems; System performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE 2002. Proceedings of the 41st SICE Annual Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7631-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2002.1195267

Filename

1195267