Decentralized Reconfiguration of a Flexible Transportation System

Vallée, Mathieu; Merdan, Munir; Lepuschitz, Wilfried; Koppensteiner, Gottfried

doi:10.1109/tii.2011.2158839

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“…Vallee et al [3] propose a multi-agent control architecture for transportation systems which is enriched with ontological representation of knowledge and reasoning [4]. The results of this study have shown increased agility, robustness and fault resistance.…”

Section: Main Expectations From Agentsmentioning

confidence: 77%

MIRA: Enabler of mass customization through agent-based development of intelligent manufacturing systems

Sorouri

Vyatkin

Salčić

2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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This research proposes an innovative agent-based design method known as "MIRA" (Modular, Intelligent and Real-time Agent) to represent products as well as mechatronic components in manufacturing systems. The new agent exploits semantic knowledge representation of its capabilities, tasks and surroundings, and upon which performs rule-based reasoning leading to generation of the IEC 61499 Function Blocks for real time and distributed control of production systems. This approach facilitates product's mass customization through development of intelligent mechatronic systems. Furthermore, the MIRA approach is exemplified in a food production case study.

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Section: Main Expectations From Agentsmentioning

confidence: 77%

MIRA: Enabler of mass customization through agent-based development of intelligent manufacturing systems

Sorouri

Vyatkin

Salčić

2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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“…Additionally, if the destination machine is broken, the system should be able to autonomously reroute the parts to other, still functioning, machines. If the system is inflexible and therefore not able to adequately reroute these parts, additional expenses are caused that again reduce the profitability of the production process [28]. Furthermore, balancing the workload between parallel machines, considering the current system state, has been recognized as a potential way to flexibly schedule appropriate operations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Test-driven agent-oriented software development

Merdan

Vrba

Melik-Merkumians

2012

Proceedings of 2012 IEEE 17th International Conference on Emerging Technologies &Amp; Factory Automation (ETFA 2012)

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Lack of awareness about the potentials of agent technology, as well as concerns regarding stability, scalability, and survivability especially in unpredictable environments of attacks and system failures are identified as major reasons for missing trust in the idea of delegating tasks to autonomous agents. Therefore, one of the key research issues is how the quality of Multi-Agent Systems can be assured, while at the same time reducing the development efforts to enhance the acceptance of agent technology in the industry. In order to ensure the industrial relevance, we focus on development of methods and techniques for the evaluation and tests of agent-based control applications. Our research covers the development of demonstration framework, including pilot implementations in industriallike settings.

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“…Middleware is proposed by Valls et al [29], [30] for reconfiguration of distributed real-time systems based on SOA. A formal system and software model are developed to support the middleware.…”

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Bridging Service-Oriented Architecture and IEC 61499 for Flexibility and Interoperability

Dai

Vyatkin

Christensen³

et al. 2015

IEEE Trans. Ind. Inf.

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In recent years, requirements for interoperability, flexibility, and reconfigurability of complex automation industry applications have increased dramatically. The adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) could be a feasible solution to meet these challenges. The IEC 61499 standard defines a set of management commands, which provides the capability of dynamic reconfiguration without affecting normal operation. In this paper, a formal model is proposed for the application of SOAs in the distributed automation domain in order to achieve flexible automation systems. Practical scenarios of applying SOA in industrial automation are discussed. In order to support the SOA IEC 61499 model, a service-based execution environment architecture is proposed. One main characteristic of flexibility-dynamic reconfiguration-is also demonstrated using a case study example.Index Terms-Dynamic reconfiguration, flexibility, function blocks, IEC 61499, IEC 61131-3, industrial automation, interoperability, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), service discovery, service-oriented architecture (SOA), simple object access protocol (SOAP), Web services description language (WSDL).

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Decentralized Reconfiguration of a Flexible Transportation System

Cited by 49 publications

References 37 publications

MIRA: Enabler of mass customization through agent-based development of intelligent manufacturing systems

MIRA: Enabler of mass customization through agent-based development of intelligent manufacturing systems

Test-driven agent-oriented software development

Bridging Service-Oriented Architecture and IEC 61499 for Flexibility and Interoperability

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