Running Agent-based-models Simulations Synchronized with Reality to Control Transport Systems
Authored by Ismael F Chaile-Alfaro, Lluis Ribas-Xirgo
Date Published: 2016
DOI: 10.7305/automatika.2016.10.1243
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Abstract
Adaptable, flexible and evolvable manufacturing systems and warehouses
are so complex to manage that control systems have to be divided into
several aspects. One of these is internal transportation, which has to
do with all tasks involved in fulfilling a set of so-called
transportation orders, i.e. commands to collect and deliver material
from origin to destination spots. A common approach to design the
controllers for these applications begins by modeling them as
multi-agent systems and continues to final deployment through a cascade
of transformations. To minimize development costs of internal
transportation controllers, we have proposed a model of construction
that includes components that synchronize the events from reality
simulation and the ones from actual reality. By using these
synchronizers, further development is required only for those parts of
the initial multi-agent controller models with real counterparts. In
this paper, we review the model and the architecture of the proposed
internal transportation system controllers and we illustrate the whole
design process through the development of a controller for an automated
laboratory. Indirectly, we prove the validity of the architecture and of
its key component, the synchronizers.
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manufacturing systems
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Robots