Holonic manufacturing scheduling: architecture, cooperation mechanism and implementation
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
Reference architecture for holonic manufacturing systems: PROSA
Computers in Industry - Special issue on manufacturing systems
Artificial Life
Ant algorithms for discrete optimization
Artificial Life
Information Sciences: an International Journal - Intelligent manufacturing and fault diagnosis (II). Soft computing approaches to fault diagnosis
An experimental benchmarking of two multi-agent architectures for production scheduling and control
Computers in Industry - Special issue on intelligent manufacturing systems
An Behavior-based Robotics
Robot Shaping: An Experiment in Behavior Engineering
Robot Shaping: An Experiment in Behavior Engineering
Autonomous Robots
A soft computing approach for task contracting in multi-agent manufacturing control
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Soft computing in industrial applications
Multi-agent coordination and control using stigmergy
Computers in Industry
Ant Colony Optimization
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Holarchy formation and optimization in holonic manufacturing systems with contract net
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
Application of the multi-agent approach in just-in-time production control system
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Towards robust and efficient planning execution
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Engineering Informatics
ADACOR: A holonic architecture for agile and adaptive manufacturing control
Computers in Industry
Semi-heterarchical control of FMS: From theory to application
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A multi-agent knowledge model for SMEs mechatronic supply chains
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
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This paper deals with the production process control in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), in which heterarchical relations exist between some decisional entities. After presenting a brief state-of-the art of the literature on the heterarchical concept we propose a semi-heterarchical control structure (composed of DAP: dynamic allocation process and of DRP: dynamic routing process), and explain the objective of our study. After presenting the concept of stigmergy, we focus in this paper on our innovative approach to routing in DRP including the active product concept. We then describe our two levels model and its main components (a virtual level VL in which virtual active products evolve stochastically in accelerated time, and a physical level PL in which physical active products evolve deterministically in real time). Our innovative approach exploits the capacity of a stigmergic routing control model to automatically find efficient routing paths for active products in FMS undergoing perturbations. After a brief presentation of the Netlogo simulation context, the qualitative and quantitative results are presented. The results illustrate the advantages of our routing approach and its capacity to surmount perturbations. The integration and implementation of our approach at the AIP-PRIMECA center in Valenciennes France is then detailed. Finally, we provide a brief overview of our future research concerning: firstly, a way to link our DRP model with the DAP distributed control system, secondly, the re-formulation of our model within the HMS (holonic manufacturing system) concept, and thirdly, the development of a new challenging and innovative concept of "hypervision".