Recent developments and future trends of industrial Agents

  • Authors:
  • Paulo Leitão;Pavel Vrba

  • Affiliations:
  • Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal and Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory, Porto, Portugal;Rockwell Automation s.r.o., Prague, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • HoloMAS'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Industrial applications of holonic and multi-agent systems for manufacturing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The agent technology provides a new way to design and engineer control solutions based on the decentralization of control over distributed structures, addressing the current requirements for modern control systems in industrial domains. This paper presents the current situation of the development and deployment of agent technology, discussing the initiatives and the current trends faced for a wider dissemination and industrial adoption, based on the work that is being carried out by the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents.