Platform Independent Multi-Agent System for Robust Networks of Production Systems. Issue 11 (2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cruz Salazar, Luis Alberto; Mayer, Felix; Schütz, Daniel; Vogel-Heuser, Birgit
• Is Part Of: IFAC-PapersOnLine. Volume 51:Issue 11(2018)
• Page Start: 1261
• Page End: 1268
• Publication Date: 2018
• Subjects: Automation -- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) -- Multi-Agent Systems -- Production control; Automatic control -- Periodicals; 629.805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.08.359
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2405-8963

Abstract

Abstract: The production of customized products requires a flexible production process. Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are currently seen as one possibility to achieve this goal, since flexibility for the production processes can be achieved by enabling cross-company collaboration. However, to fully implement CPPS for heterogeneous production systems an application and hardware platform independent, robust, and distributed software solution is required. This paper proposes a novel design and implementation for a Multi-Agent System (MAS), that can be used to create application independent CPPS. To support a variety of hardware platforms, the MAS was designed as a lightweight implementation in the programming language ANSI C. The proposed concept was evaluated by different use cases and experiments, which, in a first step, evaluated the efficiency of design and implementation.