An agent-based intelligent control platform for industrial holonic manufacturing systems

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 322-337

  Colombo, Armando Water ^a   Schoop, Ronald ^a   Neubert, Ralf ^a  

^a Schneider Electric GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent based control software; Collaborative factory automation; Intelligent industrial control; System integration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MANUFACTURE; MECHATRONICS;

AGENT-BASED CONTROL SOFTWARE; COLLABORATIVE FACTORY AUTOMATION; INTELLIGENT INDUSTRIAL CONTROL; SYSTEM INTEGRATION;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

EID: 32644446176     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2005.862210     Document Type: Article

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