Agent-Based Manufacturing

Advances in the Holonic Approach

S. M. Deen

326 pages, parution le 02/05/2003

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Résumé

Low-volume high-variety products like personalized cars or customized engines will be the key issues for manufacturing in the 21st century. The necessary control technology is based on the concept of holons, which are the units of production and behave as autonomous and cooperative agents, providing flexibility, adaptability, agility, and dynamic reconfigurability. This book presents the latest research results in agent-based manufacturing as carried out by researchers in academia and industry within the international "Holonic Manufacturing Systems" project. As this project was driven by industry, the results presented here are of vital interest not just to researchers in agent technologies or distributed artificial intelligence, but also to engineers and professionals in industry who have to respond to rapid changes and new demands in production.

Contents

Part I: Starters

Introduction
From Fractals and Bionics to Holonics
From FMS to HMS

Part II: Systems Architecture

HMS/FB Architecture and Its Implementation
FIPA Standards and Holonic Manufacturing
Towards a Formalised HMS Model

Part III: Systems Operation

An Investigation into a Computational Model for HMS
An HMS Operational Model
Holonic Diagnostics for an Automotive Assembly Line

Part IV: Application Environments and Issues

HMS Development and Implementation Environments
Transport Agents – Specification and Development
A Holonic Shot-Blasting System
Holonic Manufacturing Control:

L'auteur - S. M. Deen

University of Keele, UK

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	S. M. Deen
Parution	02/05/2003
Nb. de pages	326
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	610g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9783540440697