A multi-agent architecture for scheduling in platform-based smart manufacturing systems

作     者：Yong-kui LIU Xue-song ZHANG Lin ZHANG Fei TAO Li-hui WANG 

作者机构：Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems and RobotsSchool of Mechano-Electronic EngineeringXidian UniversityXi'an 710071China College of Computer Science and TechnologyJilin UniversityChangchun 130012China School of Automation Science and Electrical EngineeringBeihang UniversityBeijing 100191China Department of Production EngineeringKTH Royal Institute of TechnologyStockholm 11428Sweden 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering》 (信息与电子工程前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第20卷第11期

页      面：1465-1492页

核心收录：

学科分类：0711[理学-系统科学] 0810[工学-信息与通信工程] 0808[工学-电气工程] 07[理学] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 0839[工学-网络空间安全] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61973243,61873014,and 51875030) the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFB1702703)。 

主　　题：Platform Smart manufacturing Multi-agent Scheduling 

摘      要：During the past years, a number of smart manufacturing concepts have been proposed, such as cloud manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Industrial Internet. One of their common aims is to optimize the collaborative resource configuration across enterprises by establishing platforms that aggregate distributed resources. In all of these concepts, a complete manufacturing system consists of distributed physical manufacturing systems and a platform containing the virtual manufacturing systems mapped from the physical ones. We call such manufacturing systems platform-based smart manufacturing systems (PSMSs). A PSMS can therefore be regarded as a huge cyber-physical system with the cyber part being the platform and the physical part being the corresponding physical manufacturing system. A significant issue for a PSMS is how to optimally schedule the aggregated resources. Multi-agent technology provides an effective approach for solving this issue. In this paper we propose a multi-agent architecture for scheduling in PSMSs, which consists of a platform-level scheduling multi-agent system (MAS) and an enterprise-level scheduling MAS. Procedures, characteristics, and requirements of scheduling in PSMSs are presented. A model for sched-uling in a PSMS based on the architecture is proposed. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture and model.