Towards a Lightweight Platform for Realizing Agent-based Cyber-Physical Production Systems

Various roadmaps concerning research and developments for fu-ture factory automation conclude that both information and communication will be key issues for future production systems. These visions imply archi-tectural shifts and, hence, the roadmaps envision (production) systems being able to flexibly adjust their behaviour to changing conditions. This implies changing business conditions, e.g. changing demand or product portfolio, and technical conditions, e.g. technical faults. They provide novel, sophisticated mechanisms, which are enabled by the availability of communication and re-alized by the significantly increased intelligence of computing entities. One means in order to realize these visions are agent-based technologies. Nevertheless, existing agent platforms are either following the heavyweight FIPA standard or implemented in high-level languages not supported by every micro controller. Therefore, a lightweight platform for realizing agent-based cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) is required, which is intro-duced in this presentation.     «

Various roadmaps concerning research and developments for fu-ture factory automation conclude that both information and communication will be key issues for future production systems. These visions imply archi-tectural shifts and, hence, the roadmaps envision (production) systems being able to flexibly adjust their behaviour to changing conditions. This implies changing business conditions, e.g. changing demand or product portfolio, and technical conditions, e.g. technical faults. They provide n...     »