Multi-agent based manufacturing: current trends and challenges

Pulikottil, Terrin; Estrada-Jimenez, Luis Alberto; Rehman, Hamood Ur; Barata, Jose; Nikghadam-Hojjati, Sanaz; Zarzycki, Leszek

Abstract

The advent of Industry 4.0 and the development of future industrial applications can be achieved using Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This technological development invokes high levels of communication and computation in the form of an interconnected network of industrial resources. Multi-agent systems precisely can empower such technological evolution by introducing properties like decentralisation, autonomy, flexibility, social ability and modularity to the industrial context. In this regard, the current work surveys recent multi-agent based manufacturing approaches and provides a general vision of current trends focusing on frameworks/architectures, complementary technologies and common applications. This article ends with an integrated discussion of emerging agent-based industrial challenges, a general conclusion and final remarks.

• Conference Name: ETFA 2021 : 26th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation
• Conference Location: Västerås, Sweden
• Start Date: Sep 7, 2021
• End Date: Sep 10, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Jun 8, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Nov 30, 2021
• Publication Date: Sep 10, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jun 17, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 10, 2021
• Publisher: IEEE
• Series Title: IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. Proceedings
• Series ISSN: 1946-0740
• Book Title: 2021 26th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA )
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA45728.2021.9613555
• Keywords: Index Terms-Multi-agent systems; Cyber-physical Systems; Industry 40; Distributed systems; smart manufacturing
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