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This paper presents an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) system under development and its industrial background as a support system for an automated paint department. The focus is on demonstrating how the holonic architecture can be used to implement a flexible AGV system. The system is composed of autonomous AGV holons who cooperate, directly or as groups, with other holons such as robot holons, vision-system holons and order holons to produce the real parts. The holonic architecture is described in detail and example use-cases presented.
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Roulet-Dubonnet, O., Lind, M., Gellein, L.T., Nyen, P.Å., Lien, T., Skavhaug, A. (2009). Development of a Holonic Free-Roaming AGV System for Part Manufacturing. In: Mařík, V., Strasser, T., Zoitl, A. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5696. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03668-2_21
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