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The dynamic and structural complexity of production and logistics networks makes it very difficult to provide all information necessary for a central planning and control instance. It requires, therefore, adaptive production and logistic processes including autonomous capabilities for the decentralized coordination of autonomous objects in a heterarchical structure. The autonomy of the objects can be realized by novel communication technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and wireless communication networks. These and others permit and require new control strategies and autonomous decentralized control systems for production and logistic processes. In this setting, aspects like flexibility, adaptivity, and reactivity to dynamically changing external influences while maintaining the global goals are of central interest (Fig. 1).
From conventional to autonomous control – a paradigm shift (SFB 2012)
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Scholz-Reiter, B. (2014). Autonomous Production Control. In: Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20617-7_6390
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