Simulation of Multiagent-Based Agile Manufacturing
Leo van Moergestel, Erik Puik, Daniël Telgen, Maarten Aalbers, Stefan Marchai, Frank van Rooden, R. Siudak, Wim Wakelkamp, John‐Jules Ch. Meyer · ASME Press eBooks · 2011
At the Utrecht University of Applied Science we are developing an agent-based software infrastructure for agile industrial manufacturing of microdevices. This manufacturing is done on special devices called equiplets. A grid of these equiplets connected by a fast network is capable of producing an variety of different products in parallel. The multi-agent-based software infrastructure is responsible for the agile manufacturing. To test our concepts, a simulation was build based on the Jade framework, a Java-based framework for distributed multiagent systems.