Evolvable production systems in a RMS context: enabling concepts and technologies

• Author(s): Barata, José ; Onori, Mauro ; Frei, Regina ; Leitão, Paulo
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1525
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems; Multi-agent systems; Evolvable production systems
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The goal of this paper is to describe the research on Evolvable Production Systems (EPS) in the context of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS), and to briefly describe a multiagent based control solution. RMS, Holonic and EPS concepts are briefly described and compared. Novel inspiration areas and concepts to solve the demanding requirements set by RMS, such as artificial life and complexity theory, are described. Finally, the multiagent based control solution is described as the underlying infrastructure to support all future development in EPS, using concepts such as emergence and self-organisation.