A performance evaluation of industrial agents

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 7404-7409

  Ferreira, Pedro ^a   Doltsinis, Stefanos ^a   Anagnostopoulos, Athanasios ^a   Pascoa, Flavio ^a   Lohse, Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assembly systems; Industrial control; Intelligent control; Multi agent systems; System performance

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; HYBRID AGENT ARCHITECTURE; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; INDUSTRIAL CONTROLS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGICAL CONTROLLER (PLC); SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; UNPREDICTABLE CHANGES;

ASSEMBLY; INDUSTRY; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RIVETING;

INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84893613789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2013.6700365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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