An automation agent architecture with a reflective world model in manufacturing systems

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 305-310

  Vallée, Mathieu ^a   Kaindl, Hermann ^a   Merdan, Munir ^a   Lepuschitz, Wilfried ^a   Arnautovic, Edin ^a   Vrba, Pavel ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Rockwell Automation sro   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Agent architecture; Distributed intelligent systems; Manufacturing systems automation; World model

Indexed keywords

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; AGENT-BASED CONTROL; AUTOMATION AGENT; CENTRALIZED APPROACHES; DECENTRALIZED APPROACH; DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; HARDWARE COMPONENTS; MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION; WORLD MODEL;

AUTOMATION; CYBERNETICS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 74849116659     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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