Functionalities of multi-agent systems in Programmable Logic Controllers

The consumer market ever more calls for diversified products in small batches and the industry lacks production systems that meet the demands with efficiency and ability to adapt quickly. Integrated manufacturing systems implemented have their management for programmable logic controllers and electr...

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Main Author: Peixoto, João Alvarez (author)
Other Authors: Pereira, Carlos Eduardo (author), de Oliveira, José Barata (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.11.126
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/55254
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Summary:The consumer market ever more calls for diversified products in small batches and the industry lacks production systems that meet the demands with efficiency and ability to adapt quickly. Integrated manufacturing systems implemented have their management for programmable logic controllers and electrical interconnections, control logic and satisfactory robustness, but they do not attend the needs of diversity and flexibility in production. The solutions to these needs refer the company to migrate to the use of new technologies of control, circuit and logic. However, for an industry migrates is a very big and expensive step. Then, there is an urgent need for methods that implement the interface between logic controllers and multi-agent systems in order to evolve an integrated manufacturing system taking advantage of all electrical circuitry, control logic and the logic controller that installs itself, taking advantage of the self-adapting characteristics that the multi-agent systems provide.