Switching between levels of Decision Making in MASOrganisation: application to flexible assembly cells

• Main Authors: Pach, Cyrille, Adam, Emmanuel, Berger, Thierry, Trentesaux, Damien
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201 (LAMIH), Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (UVHC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-INSA Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Hauts-de-France (INSA Hauts-De-France)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: MultiAgent; MultiLevel Organisation; Manufacturing System; [SPI.AUTO]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Automatic; [INFO]Computer Science [cs]; Orca
• Online Access: https://hal-uphf.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03468680

International audience This paper presents a bi-level multiagent organisation where decision-making are taken in an optimal way at the upperlevel of the MAS, and in a reactive way, at the lower level. We proposed ORCA (Architecture for an Optimized and Reactive Control) approach to the management of flexible manufacturing systems. In this application, the upper leveluses an Integer Linear Program (ILP) to allocate works to shuttles that have to build products; and the reactive scheduling model is based on potential fields. A simulation allows us to test our models, before to implement them on a real flexible assembly cell and validate the simulation results.