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Distributed Deadline Control in Holonic Manufacturing Systems

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In this paper, we examine the characteristics of holons based on mobile agents that migrate to hardware controllers responsible for executing manufacturing tasks and monitoring their execution status. Appropriate compensatory actions are then initiated to ensure that task deadlines are satisfied as much as possible. It is also argued that such a conceptual model will facilitate research and development of mobile agent-based holonic manufacturing systems with respect to HMS reconfiguration in real-time.

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  1. Institute for Manufacturing, University of CambridgeMill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX, UK

    Martyn Fletcher

  2. Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NWCalgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada

    Robert W. Brennan & Douglas H. Norrie

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík , Olga Štěpánková  & Hana Krautwurmová ,  & 

  2. Rockwell Automation Research Center Prague, Americka 22, 120 00, Prague 2, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Mařík

  3. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    Michael Luck

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Fletcher, M., Brennan, R.W., Norrie, D.H. (2002). Distributed Deadline Control in Holonic Manufacturing Systems. In: Mařík, V., Štěpánková, O., Krautwurmová, H., Luck, M. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications II. ACAI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45982-0_23

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