Past, Present, and Future of Industrial Agent Applications

Leitão, Paulo; Mařı́k, Vladimı́r; Vrba, Pavel

doi:10.1109/tii.2012.2222034

Cited by 192 publications

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“…The past experience in applying individually these concepts, for example MAS, was not a complete successful story. In fact, the analysis of the industrial applications of agent-based solutions reported in the literature (see [6] and [7] for more details) allows extracting the following conclusions [34]:…”

Section: Adoption By Industrial Playersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Self-organized Service-Oriented Multi-agent Systems

Leitão

2013

Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi Agent Manufacturing and Robotics

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Abstract. The demand for large-scale systems running in complex and even chaotic environments requires the consideration of new paradigms and technologies that provide flexibility, robustness, agility and responsiveness. Multiagents systems is pointed out as a suitable approach to address this challenge by offering an alternative way to design control systems, based on the decentralization of control functions over distributed autonomous and cooperative entities. However, in spite of their enormous potential, they usually lack some aspects related to interoperability, optimization in decentralized structures and truly self-adaptation. This paper discusses a new perspective to engineer adaptive complex systems considering a 3-layer framework integrating several complementary paradigms and technologies. In a first step, it suggests the integration of multi-agent systems with service-oriented architectures to overcome the limitations of interoperability and smooth migration, followed by the use of technology enablers, such as cloud computing and wireless sensor networks, to provide a ubiquitous and reconfigurable environment. Finally, the resulted service-oriented multi-agent system should be enhanced with biologically inspired techniques, namely self-organization, to reach a truly robust, agile and adaptive system.

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Section: Adoption By Industrial Playersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Self-organized Service-Oriented Multi-agent Systems

Leitão

2013

Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi Agent Manufacturing and Robotics

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“…Therefore, each linear machine often demands the state information from other machines, so as to work cooperatively and synchronously. The overall motion control performance can be improved such as faster operation time, more efficiency and the annihilation of accumulated errors, etc., compared to a traditional sequenced working manner [1]. Furthermore, if multiple linear machines can be organized as a coordinated and distributed motion tracking network and each machine has the position controller, sensor and driver of its own, the ultimate global tracking control goal can be emerged by local communications among the independent linear machine nodes with local controllers, without the necessity of any global supervision or decision [2].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tracking Control with Zero Phase-Difference for Linear Switched Reluctance Machines Network

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This paper discusses the control of the linear switched reluctance machines (LSRMs) network for the zero phase-difference tracking to a sinusoidal reference. The dynamics of each LSRM is derived by online system identification and modeled as a second-order linear system. Accordingly, based on the coupled harmonic oscillators synchronization manner, a distributed control strategy is proposed to synchronize each LSRM state to a virtual LSRM node representing the external sinusoidal reference for tracking it with zero phase-difference. Subsequently, a simulation scenario and an experimental platform with the identical parameter setup are designed to investigate the tracking performance of the LSRMs network constructed by the proposed distributed control strategy. Finally, the simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed LSRMs network controller, and also prove that the coupled harmonic oscillators synchronization method can improve the synchronization tracking performance and precision.

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“…Complementarily, a deeper and up-to-date description of the current holonic and multi-agent systems solutions can be found in the surveys of [20][21][22]23], where a more detailed description of the aforementioned and other not mentioned solutions is made.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%