Dynamic Resource Task Negotiation to Enable Product Agent Exploration in Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems

Ilya Kovalenko, Daria Ryashentseva, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Dawn Tilbury, Kira Barton

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Abstract

Distributed multi-agent control has been proposed to improve the flexibility of manufacturing systems. Two important components of this control strategy are product agents, representing physical parts in the system, and resource agents, representing the system resources. Product agents request actions from resource agents to guide physical parts through the manufacturing system. Before requesting specific actions, a product agent must effectively communicate with the system's resource agents to understand the capabilities of the resources on the plant floor. In this letter, an approach to product agent exploration based on a network of resource agents is described and analyzed. In addition, results and insights from an implementation of the proposed exploration methodology in a manufacturing system are presented.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number8733849
Pages (from-to)2854-2861
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Volume4
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2019

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Control and Optimization
  • Artificial Intelligence

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