Multi-agent and holonic systems in manufacturing

The book deals with the modelling, simulation and verification of multi-agent manufacturing system with application of bio-inspired techniques. To this end, the new solution of abstract architecture for control and coordination decentralized systems - CODESA is suggested. Centralized architecture suffers from various problems, such as rigidity, scalability, low fault-tolerance or very limited flexibility, agility and productivity. Prime is concrete application of CODESA in manufacturing domain. The undesirable characteristics of emergent behaviour are the problem to achieve optimization and impossibility to predict future states of the system. CODESA-Prime has been tested by simulations for automatic guided vehicle (AGV) systems guided by magnetic tape in Ella Software Platform. The next part of the book deals with holonic manufacturing system.

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prof. Ing. Branislav MI IETA, PhD. - Professore di Ingegneria Industriale. Direttore del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale dell'Università di ilina. È autore e coautore di 300 articoli e 17 libri in patria e all'estero. Ha pubblicato negli Stati Uniti, in Germania, Polonia, Slovenia, Croazia, Austria e altri paesi.