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International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems

HoloMAS 2009: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing pp 25–36Cite as

Usability of Multi-agent Based Control Systems in Industrial Automation

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 5696))

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A future adaptive and reconfigurable manufacturing system has to address, beside the requirements for agile and fast reaction to sudden and unpredictable changes in production demands, also the problem of user acceptance and understanding of such highly intelligent reconfigurable systems. Thus, the usability is a major criterion for the design of future manufacturing systems. The design and development of both the architecture for simplifying of development of such systems and the advanced diagnostic, monitoring, and human-interaction system will provide an easy maintenance and increased acceptance of such systems.

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  1. Automation and Control Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstr. 27-29 | 376, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Ivanka Terzic & Alois Zoitl

  2. PROFACTOR GmbH, Im Stadtgut A2, 4407, Steyr-Gleink, Austria

    Martijn Rooker & Thomas Strasser

  3. Rockwell Automation Research Center, Pekarska 695/10a, 15500, Prague, Czech Republic

    Pavel Vrba & Vladimir Mařík

  4. Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimir Mařík

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Terzic, I., Zoitl, A., Rooker, M., Strasser, T., Vrba, P., Mařík, V. (2009). Usability of Multi-agent Based Control Systems in Industrial Automation. 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_3

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