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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Pasek, Z. J. (2010). Sandbox for development of evolving manufacturing control architectures. In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (Vol. 71, pp. 257–265). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12433-4_31
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