In this paper, the application and the need for agent-based techniques to design manufacturing control systems is presented. The sensible agent architecture has been proposed to allow agents exhibit dynamic, adaptive autonomy. This allows for the creation of dynamic, self-organizing entities in the implementation. The application of the sensible agents to prototype a manufacturing scenario is p...

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The purpose of INGENIAS is the definition of a methodology for the development of MAS, by integrating results from research in the area of agent technology with a well-established software development process, which in this case is the Rational Unified Process (RUP). This methodology is based on the definition of a set of meta-models that describe the elements that form a MAS from several viewp...

ontrol agents are effective mechanisms for autonomous control of complex distributed systems. This article describes the Open Autonomy Kernel (OAK), a control agent architecture that is based on a unique combination of model-based reasoning and software agents. The discussion includes the design and testing of OAK agents on Navy auxiliary systems, the need to consider the control network as a p...

The paper provides a basic introduction to the scheduling and control of production systems using a hierarchical structure of a decision making (DM). A DM process created on the MAS basis may consider an intelligent and adaptive agent on the higher level and an autonomous agent in the lower level of the DM according to the system requirements. An example for the optimal or near optimal selectio...

Multi-agent coordination is an important and complicated process. This paper proposes a layered approach to coordination in which low-level domain independent coordination and scheduling modules deal with detailed temporal and resource constraints and high-level controllers focus on domain issues and domain state. A general agent architecture is described based on this agent control model. The ...

For the distributed control of an electricity infrastructure incorporating clusters of residential combined heat and power units (micro-CHP or μCHP) a Multi-Agent System approach is considered. The network formed by households generating electricity with μCHP units and the facilitating energy supplier can be regarded as an electricity production system, analogous to a (flexible) manufacturing s...