Abstract
In recent years, the increasingly complexity of the logistic and technical aspects of the novel manufacturing environments, as well as the need to increase the performance and safety characteristics of the related cooperation, coordination and control mechanisms is encouraging the development of new information management strategies to direct and manage the automated systems involved in the manufacturing processes. The Computational Intelligent (CI) approaches seem to provide an effective support to the challenges posed by the next generation industrial systems. In particular, the Intelligent Agents (IAs) and the Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) paradigms seem to provide the best suitable solutions. Autonomy, flexibility and adaptability of the agent-based technology are the key points to manage both automated and information processes of any industrial system. The paper describes the main features of the IAs and MASs and how their technology can be adapted to support the current and next generation advanced industrial systems. Moreover, a study of how a MAS is utilized within a productive process is depicted.
Highlights
The current industrial systems are destined to become environments even more technologically advanced in every aspect
The increasingly complexity of the logistic and technical aspects of the novel manufacturing environments, as well as the need to increase the performance and safety characteristics of the related cooperation, coordination and control mechanisms is encouraging the development of new information management strategies to direct and manage the automated systems involved in the manufacturing processes
We describe the main features of the Intelligent Agents (IAs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) and how their technology can be adapted to support the current and generation advanced industrial systems
Summary
The current industrial systems are destined to become environments even more technologically advanced in every aspect This is due to several reasons: the complexity of the new manufacturing processes, the need to optimize costs, the increasing of the complexity in managing resources, the need to improve performances, the aspects tied to the information exchanges, the manufacture of complex products, the need to ensure advanced safety standard, and so on. The IAs and MASs are technologies that can play an important role in every aspect involved in the development of the generation of the advanced industrial systems These systems have to be designed to include intelligent, autonomous and evolvable entities in turn composed by different sub-entities having the same features. We describe the main features of the IAs and MASs and how their technology can be adapted to support the current and generation advanced industrial systems.
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