Cooperation of agents in manufacturing systems

  • Authors:
  • František Čapkovič

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • Venue:
  • KES-AMSTA'10 Proceedings of the 4th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications, Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The cooperation of agents is synthesized in this paper. It is based on the theory of supervision used in the part of control theory devoted to DES (discrete-event systems). Place/transition Petri nets (P/T PNs) are utilized to model both the elementary autonomous agents and the agent cooperation itself. The proposed approach is illustrated in details on the cooperation of mobile "material" agents in manufacturing systems. The usefulness and applicability of the approach consists especially in the fact that the procedure in analytical terms can be employed. In such a way the approach turns lucid also in complicated cases.