Abstract
For decades now, manufacturing systems have grown in size and complexity. Between new consumption habits and hypercompetitive markets, manufacturing systems have started a race towards the industry of the future. Still, many technological and societal issues are paving their way: connectivity, resilience and human integration being among the most critical ones. The idea of this paper is to bring a new framework to help answering these issues by bringing resilience to systems, improving their interoperability, enhancing Data acquisition, transmission & processing, enabling the establishment hierarchical levels among agents, or by facilitating the system acceptance by human agents and the human integration within the system. To this end, this article brings a new formal framework for Social Holonic Control Architectures, based on an analysis of the existing literature. An UML-based modelling framework will equally be proposed to ease understanding and implementation of this new Social Holonic Control Architecture, illustrated by a concrete application on a small-scale Multi-Agent System.
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