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Pavel Vrba - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Past, present, and future of Industrial Agent applications
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2013Co-Authors: Paulo Leitão, Vladimír Mařík, Pavel VrbaAbstract:Industrial Agents technology leverages the benefits of multiAgent systems, distributed computing, artificial intelligence techniques and semantics in the field of production, services and infrastructure sectors, providing a new way to design and engineer control solutions based on the decentralization of control over distributed structures. The key drivers for this application are the benefits of Agent-based Industrial systems, namely in terms of robustness, scalability, reconfigurability and productivity, all of which translate to a greater competitive advantage. This manuscript monitors the chronology of research and development of the Industrial applications of multiAgent and holonic systems. It provides the comprehensive overview of methodologies, architectures and applications of Agents in Industrial domain from early nineties up to present. It also gives an outlook of the current trends as well as challenges and possible future application domains of Industrial Agents.
Paulo Leitão - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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key directions for Industrial Agent based cyber physical production systems
International Conference on Pervasive Services, 2019Co-Authors: Stamatis Karnouskos, Paulo Leitão, Luis Ribeiro, Arndt Luder, Birgit VogelheuserAbstract:Rapid technology advances and increasing digitalization bring new opportunities but also put new challenges to modern production systems. Industrial Agent concepts and technologies can be used to address the needs of modern Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS). To do so, their interplay, especially in Industrial settings, needs to be better understood and assessed. Key directions for investigations that are relevant for Industrial Agent based CPPS are analyzed in this work, mainly the design patterns, interfaces between Agents and CPPS, metrics to evaluate the quality of Agent based CPPS, and distributed intelligence implemented in or by Agents. Although efforts exist both in Agent and CPPS domains, their amalgamation still has several aspects that are under-investigated, especially when considering large-scale systems of CPPS, and the proposed four directions discussed in this work, seem promising to address several of the key underlying challenges.
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common practices for integrating Industrial Agents and low level automation functions
Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society, 2017Co-Authors: Paulo Leitão, Stamatis Karnouskos, Luis Ribeiro, Panayiotis Moutis, Jose Barbosa, Thomas StrasserAbstract:Industrial Agent technologies have been integrated in key elements coupling Industrial systems and software logic, which is an important issue in the design of cyber-physical systems. Although several efforts have been tried out over the last decades to integrate software Agents with physical hardware devices, and some commonalities can be observed among the existing practices, there is no uniform way overall. This work presents an empirical survey of existing practices in three application area, namely factory automation, power & energy systems and building automation. It identifies pertaining common issues and discusses how they integrate low level automation functions by utilizing Industrial Agents. The surveyed practices reveal high diversity, customized traditional integration focusing mostly on I/O functions, without security, and an overall approach that is mostly coupled rather than embedded.
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Past, present, and future of Industrial Agent applications
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2013Co-Authors: Paulo Leitão, Vladimír Mařík, Pavel VrbaAbstract:Industrial Agents technology leverages the benefits of multiAgent systems, distributed computing, artificial intelligence techniques and semantics in the field of production, services and infrastructure sectors, providing a new way to design and engineer control solutions based on the decentralization of control over distributed structures. The key drivers for this application are the benefits of Agent-based Industrial systems, namely in terms of robustness, scalability, reconfigurability and productivity, all of which translate to a greater competitive advantage. This manuscript monitors the chronology of research and development of the Industrial applications of multiAgent and holonic systems. It provides the comprehensive overview of methodologies, architectures and applications of Agents in Industrial domain from early nineties up to present. It also gives an outlook of the current trends as well as challenges and possible future application domains of Industrial Agents.
Vladimír Mařík - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Past, present, and future of Industrial Agent applications
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2013Co-Authors: Paulo Leitão, Vladimír Mařík, Pavel VrbaAbstract:Industrial Agents technology leverages the benefits of multiAgent systems, distributed computing, artificial intelligence techniques and semantics in the field of production, services and infrastructure sectors, providing a new way to design and engineer control solutions based on the decentralization of control over distributed structures. The key drivers for this application are the benefits of Agent-based Industrial systems, namely in terms of robustness, scalability, reconfigurability and productivity, all of which translate to a greater competitive advantage. This manuscript monitors the chronology of research and development of the Industrial applications of multiAgent and holonic systems. It provides the comprehensive overview of methodologies, architectures and applications of Agents in Industrial domain from early nineties up to present. It also gives an outlook of the current trends as well as challenges and possible future application domains of Industrial Agents.
Stamatis Karnouskos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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key directions for Industrial Agent based cyber physical production systems
International Conference on Pervasive Services, 2019Co-Authors: Stamatis Karnouskos, Paulo Leitão, Luis Ribeiro, Arndt Luder, Birgit VogelheuserAbstract:Rapid technology advances and increasing digitalization bring new opportunities but also put new challenges to modern production systems. Industrial Agent concepts and technologies can be used to address the needs of modern Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS). To do so, their interplay, especially in Industrial settings, needs to be better understood and assessed. Key directions for investigations that are relevant for Industrial Agent based CPPS are analyzed in this work, mainly the design patterns, interfaces between Agents and CPPS, metrics to evaluate the quality of Agent based CPPS, and distributed intelligence implemented in or by Agents. Although efforts exist both in Agent and CPPS domains, their amalgamation still has several aspects that are under-investigated, especially when considering large-scale systems of CPPS, and the proposed four directions discussed in this work, seem promising to address several of the key underlying challenges.
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common practices for integrating Industrial Agents and low level automation functions
Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society, 2017Co-Authors: Paulo Leitão, Stamatis Karnouskos, Luis Ribeiro, Panayiotis Moutis, Jose Barbosa, Thomas StrasserAbstract:Industrial Agent technologies have been integrated in key elements coupling Industrial systems and software logic, which is an important issue in the design of cyber-physical systems. Although several efforts have been tried out over the last decades to integrate software Agents with physical hardware devices, and some commonalities can be observed among the existing practices, there is no uniform way overall. This work presents an empirical survey of existing practices in three application area, namely factory automation, power & energy systems and building automation. It identifies pertaining common issues and discusses how they integrate low level automation functions by utilizing Industrial Agents. The surveyed practices reveal high diversity, customized traditional integration focusing mostly on I/O functions, without security, and an overall approach that is mostly coupled rather than embedded.
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Industrial Agents Cybersecurity
Industrial Agents, 2015Co-Authors: Stamatis KarnouskosAbstract:Industrial Agents are considered a key enabler for Industrial applications, thus sophisticated approaches have been developed for them over the past several years. However, it is noticeable that most of them focus on the provision of core functionalities relevant to the application, while other aspects, such as security and privacy, which are not immediately visible, are considered second-class priorities and are often neglected or realized only at a very basic level. With the emergence of cyber-physical systems, and especially their application in the Industrial domain, the business landscape is changing, because they offer sophisticated capabilities that may be transformed to competitive business advantages. This work provides some insights on Industrial Agent cybersecurity focusing on technology trends, security threats, and considerations for their successful utilization in Industrial environments.
H. Van Dyke Parunak - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Practitioners' Review of Industrial Agent Applications
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2000Co-Authors: H. Van Dyke ParunakAbstract:ERIM's^1 Center for Electronic Commerce (CEC) hosted a two-day Workshop on Industrial Agents (WINA) in Ann Arbor, MI on Nov. 12–13, 1998. Participation in the workshop was by invitation only, and was restricted to companies with whom the CEC is doing business or developing collaborations in Agent technologies. Because of its Industrial focus, the workshop's objectives have a rather different emphasis than research-oriented workshops and conferences. The projects discussed at the workshop and summarized in this report fall into three areas of increasing generality: focused applications, broadly applicable tools, and methodological guidelines.
