Abstract:Manufacturing enterprises must face increasingly difficult production environments. External factors such as varying product variants and varying quantities as well as internal factors such as reworking and resource breakdowns pose a high challenge for task allocation and control. Inspired by the similarity between ant foraging behavior model and task allocation in manufacturing system, a pheromone-based coordination mechanism for manufacturing system is proposed. The pheromone-based static and dynamic coordin… Show more
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