A multi-agent approach to process planning and fabrication in distributed manufacturing

✍ Scribed by Alojzij Sluga; Peter Butala; Goran Bervar

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 303 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-8352
• DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(98)00132-6

✦ Synopsis

ln the paper a multi-agent approach to the development of a distributed manufacturing architecture is presented. An essential building block introduced here is the virtual work system (VWS) which represents a manufacturing work system in the information space. The VWS is structured as an autonomous agent and is a constituent entity of an agent network. In the network dynamic clusters of cooperating agents are solving manufacturing tasks. A machining work system and its VWS is demonstrated in a case study. Its role in the agent communication network is discussed in a process planning and fabrication domain.