Abstract
To face the challenges of today’s market requirements, a huge effort is made to plan continuous flow manufacturing systems used today. Simultaneously disturbances during the production have decisive negative effects on the effectiveness. To mitigate this problem, current research programs try to use flexible production systems with a high degree of self-organization. In this paper a novel concept for a flexible decentralized production system is described which combines the planning method of a precedence graph and a multi-agent-system that forms a modular control system. Furthermore first results are presented that have been achieved by a pilot demonstrator and simulation experiments.
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This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) under the “AUTONOMIK fuer Industrie 4.0” research program within the project SMART FACE (Grant no. 01MA13007). The project consortium consists of industrial companies and research institutions, namely Logata Digital Solutions, F/L/S Fuzzy Logik Systeme, Lanfer Automation, Continental AG, SICK AG, Volkswagen AG, TU Dortmund University, and Fraunhofer IML.
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Blesing, C., Luensch, D., Stenzel, J., Korth, B. (2017). Concept of a Multi-agent Based Decentralized Production System for the Automotive Industry. In: Demazeau, Y., Davidsson, P., Bajo, J., Vale, Z. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems: The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10349. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59930-4_2
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