@inproceedings{38896a18bec44db4bd70bd25e02464da,
title = "A multiagent control system for shop floor assembly",
abstract = "Current globalization associated to new customers' needs are decreasing products' life-cycle and pushing researchers to find new ways to provide shop floor assembly systems with agility to adapt to this new volatile reality. This document describes a multiagent implementation to control a shop floor system, with increased plug and play capabilities and providing fast system (re)configuration. In this approach, each shop floor component was agentified enhancing its adaptability and interaction competences to respond to environmental requests. Each agent representing a shop floor component can be aggregated to form a coalition that coordinates higher level processes (complex skills) based on the ones available in its members. An ontology is used to ensure an accurate information exchange, as well as to define the domain and relations between entities. This approach also shows how to adapt legacy systems to support innovative approaches.",
keywords = "multiagent systems, agile shop floor, distributed control, ontology",
author = "Goncalo Candido and Jose Barata",
year = "2007",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-540-74478-8",
series = "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence",
publisher = "SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN",
pages = "293--302",
editor = "Marik and Vyatkin and AW Colombo",
booktitle = "HOLONIC AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING, PROCEEDINGS",
}