Multi-agent systems negotiation to deal with dynamic scheduling in disturbed industrial context

Tsegay Tesfay Mezgebe (), Hind Bril El Haouzi, Guillaume Demesure, Remi Pannequin and Andre Thomas
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Tsegay Tesfay Mezgebe: Université de Lorraine
Hind Bril El Haouzi: Université de Lorraine
Guillaume Demesure: Université de Lorraine
Remi Pannequin: Université de Lorraine
Andre Thomas: Université de Lorraine

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2020, vol. 31, issue 6, No 4, 1367-1382

Abstract: Abstract It is now accepted that using multi-agent systems improve the reactivity to treat perturbation(s) within flexible manufacturing system. Intelligent algorithms shall be used to address these perturbation(s) and all smart decision entities within their environment have to continuously negotiate until their common and final goal is achieved. This paper proposes a negotiation-based control approach to deal with variability on a manufacturing system. It has initially formulated and modeled an environment in which all contributing entities or agents operate, communicate, and interact with each other productively. Then after, simulation and applicability implementation experiments on the basis of full-sized academic experimental platform have been conducted to validate the proposed control approach. Product and resource entities negotiate considering different key performance measures in order to set best priority-based product sequencing. This has been done with expectations that the applicability of the negotiation-based decision-making will be more adaptable to deal with perturbation(s) than another alternative decision-making approach called pure reactive control approach. The result showed that negotiation among the decisional entities has brought significant improvement in reducing makespan and hence conveyed better global performance of a manufacturing system.

Keywords: Negotiation; Control protocol; Multi-agent system; Intelligent decision; Distributed reactive; Makespan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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