Industrial automation based on cyber-physical systems technologies: Prototype implementations and challenges

Leitão, Paulo; Colombo, Armando Walter; Karnouskos, Stamatis

doi:10.1016/j.compind.2015.08.004

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“…Several surveys in the literature [4]- [7], [15], [19] point toward some reasons, but mostly from a qualitative view point. In this paper, the focus is on a quantitative methodology.…”

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“…Key challenges have been identified for CPS [19], and as Industrial Agents already contribute to it [33], the question arises if by increasing the acceptance of Industrial Agents, this could act as an enabler for the CPS domain. As seen in Table III, there are several areas that are common both to 1) the factors that impact Industrial Agent acceptance and 2) the identified challenges for industrial CPS.…”

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“…Several surveys [4]- [7], [15], [19], performed in the last years, have tried to understand the possible barriers that are blocking the wider adoption of agent technology in industrial environments. Among others issues, these surveys have identified several important barriers, namely the demand of industry for proven and mature technologies, the initial investment, the industrial standard compliance, the missing development methodologies, the scalability and interoperability, and the integration of physical automation devices.…”

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“…In the literature, several survey review papers were published analyzing the level of adoption of agent technology in industrial environments (see, e.g., [2]- [8], [15], [19]- [26]). These review papers surveyed a set of agent-based solutions deployed in industry and concluded that very few agent systems were really built for industry.…”

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“…The emergence of CPS in the last few years, and their prevalence in industrial domains [14], may provide a new opportunity for Industrial Agents [2], [19]. The reason may be associated with the software agent and especially MAS characteristics, which are envisioned to be featured by CPS at large.…”

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Key Contributing Factors to the Acceptance of Agents in Industrial Environments

Karnouskos

Leitão

2017

IEEE Trans. Ind. Inf.

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Abstract-Multiple software agent-based solutions have been developed during the last decades, and applied with varying success to different domains offering control, reconfiguration, diagnosis, monitoring, etc. However, the promise that they once posed in terms of a new alternative decentralized approach offering modularity, flexibility and robustness, is only partially fulfilled. This paper investigates some key factors, i.e., design, technology, intelligence/algorithms, standardization, hardware, challenges, application and cost, which are hypothesized to be linked to the Industrial Agent acceptance. Empirical data was acquired via a conducted survey, and statistically analyzed to investigate the support of the posed hypotheses. The results indicate that all the factors are seen important issues that play a role toward deciding for or against an industrial agent solution.

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“…Several surveys in the literature [4]- [7], [15], [19] point toward some reasons, but mostly from a qualitative view point. In this paper, the focus is on a quantitative methodology.…”

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