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Sandbox for Development of Evolving Manufacturing Control Architectures

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Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems

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Control architectures for manufacturing cover a broad range of categories from hierarchical at one extreme to purely heterarchical on the other spanning a broad variety of solutions, from quasi-heterarchical structures to self-organizing systems. This paper describes an agent-based framework that provides the tools and components for fast implementation and testing of various control structures in a manufacturing environment. Typical components include, for example, a generic agent for encapsulation of machine-level control, a configurable decision process for the agents, hierarchical or heterarchical control frameworks. Use of these predefined components enables rapid prototyping and instantiation of system-level control.

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  1. Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Dept., University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Ave., N9B3P4, Windsor, ON, Canada

    Zbigniew J. Pasek

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Maison Jean Kuntzmann, 110 av. de la Chimie, F-38041, Grenoble, France

    Yves Demazeau

  2. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht Centrumgebouw Noord, office A117, Padualaan 14, De Uitho, 3584CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frank Dignum

  3. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Facultad de Ciencias , Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

  4. Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, 37002, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Bajo

  5. ETSI Informática, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012, Sevilla, Spain

    Rafael Corchuelo

  6. Departamento de Informática y Automática Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

  7. Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Edificio Politécnico, Despacho 408, Campus Universitario As Lagoas s/n, 32004, Ourense, Spain

    Florentino Fernández-Riverola

  8. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente J. Julián

  9. Department of Computing and Management, Poznan University of Technology, Strzelecka Str. 11, 60965, Poznan, Poland

    Pawel Pawlewski

  10. Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory, NH 03755-3510, Hanover, USA

    Andrew Campbell

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Pasek, Z.J. (2010). Sandbox for Development of Evolving Manufacturing Control Architectures. In: Demazeau, Y., et al. Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 71. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12433-4_31

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