Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Production Systems Control (HiLCP2sC): A Multi-objective Interactive Framework Proposal

Abstract

Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Production Systems Control (HilCP2sC) concept can be largely conceived as a natural evolution of distributed manufacturing control paradigms which exploits recent technological progresses in embedded systems, ICT and networking and communication infrastructure, and where Human-System interactive dimension of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) plays a significant role as an enabler for intelligent decisional framework bringing human into the cybernetic loop of the manufacturing control system. The reported research concerns an on-going effort toward the introduction and the development of this concept and presents, as a preliminary technical investigation, the deployment within this context of a parallel multi-objective NSGA2-based high-level scheduling framework capable both of exploiting computational and communicative capabilities of the manufacturing systems Cyber-Physical components, and integration of human decision maker preference within the control process. Different conceptual and technical issues, and some earliest results related to this investigation are presented in the paper.