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Data collection for global monitoring and trend analysis in the GRACE multi-agent system

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Summary:Multi-agent systems (MAS) paradigm is a suitable approach to implement distributed manufacturing systems addressing the emergent requirements of flexibility, robustness and responsiveness. In such systems, the distributed agents have a local view of the system environment being the global data collection a complex and critical issue to provide the functionalities of the ISA-95 standard, such as dynamic scheduling, maintenance management and quality assurance. This paper describes the data collection mechanisms in a multiagent system that supports the global monitoring over the time and the trend analysis to perform self-adaptation and selfoptimization. The proposed approach was developed and tested in an industrial washing machines production line.
Main Authors:Pereira, Arnaldo
Other Authors:Rodrigues, Nelson; Leitão, Paulo
Subject:Multi-agent systems Data collection
Year:2013
Country:Portugal
Document type:conference paper
Access type:restricted access
Associated institution:Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Language:English
Origin:Biblioteca Digital do IPB
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Summary:Multi-agent systems (MAS) paradigm is a suitable approach to implement distributed manufacturing systems addressing the emergent requirements of flexibility, robustness and responsiveness. In such systems, the distributed agents have a local view of the system environment being the global data collection a complex and critical issue to provide the functionalities of the ISA-95 standard, such as dynamic scheduling, maintenance management and quality assurance. This paper describes the data collection mechanisms in a multiagent system that supports the global monitoring over the time and the trend analysis to perform self-adaptation and selfoptimization. The proposed approach was developed and tested in an industrial washing machines production line.