The cambridge packing cell: a holonic enterprise demonstrator
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Ontology-supported quality assurance for component-based systems configuration
Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software quality
Using radio frequency identification in agent-based control systems for industrial applications
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Usability of Multi-agent Based Control Systems in Industrial Automation
HoloMAS '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Distributed control of production systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Recent developments and future trends of industrial Agents
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Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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The paper provides an overview of the agent-based solutions developed by the Rockwell Automation company for the purposes of industrial control. Using agent-based manufacturing control, a higher degree of flexibility and reconfigurability of manufacturing solutions as well as higher robustness of the industrial systems can be achieved. Specific solutions connected with the proposed agent architecture, with implementation of the real-time control agents as well as with the information transfer among the SW agents and the real-time agents in a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) are presented. Attention is also paid to the simulation of both the agent-based manufacturing facilities and their control systems. A simulation environment MAST for material handling systems has been implemented in JADE. The opportunity to re-use directly the simulation software on the agent control level is one of the most important features of MAST.