Design and Implementation of Adaptive Agents for Complex Manufacturing Systems

Authors:
Jens Zimmermann;Lars Mönch
Affiliations:
University of Hagen, Chair of Enterprise-wide Software Systems, Universitätsstraße 1, 58097 Hagen, Germany;University of Hagen, Chair of Enterprise-wide Software Systems, Universitätsstraße 1, 58097 Hagen, Germany
Venue:
HoloMAS '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we extend the Product-Resource-Order-Staff-Architecture (PROSA) for holonic manufacturing systems towards ensuring adaptive behavior of agent-based manufacturing control systems. PROSA suggests the usage of decision-making and staff agents. Staff agents support the decision-making agents. We introduce adaptive staff agents. Adaptive staff agents make sure that the parameters of production control algorithms are adjusted properly in a situation-dependent manner. We describe the architecture of adaptive staff agents and their interaction with the other agents of the manufacturing control system. We present an example for using adaptive staff agents in the semiconductor manufacturing domain.