Integrating Human Operators into Agent-based Manufacturing Systems: A Table-top Demonstration

摘要: Abstract To stay competitive in the modern market, manufacturing systems must be adaptable and flexible to deal with challenges such as machine breakdowns or requests for new, customized products. A strategy proposed improve system flexibility is integration of multi-agent control on plant floor. The consists a distributed agents (e.g. resource agents, product agents) that are responsible controlling various parts through cooperation. While previous Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) implementations have architectures they do not specify how human workers can integrated flexibility. This work specifies Human Resource Agent (HRA) architecture into strategy. demonstrated using table-top testbed showcasing HRA add system.