Disturbance management design for a holonic multiagent manufacturing system by using hybrid approach
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Disturbance management design for a holonic multiagent manufacturing system by using hybrid approach Jing Lei · Zhu-Yuan Yang
Published online: 18 August 2012 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Abstract This paper proposes a disturbance management methodology for an agent-based holonic manufacturing system by using hybrid control approach, with its application to a mobile manipulator system. Firstly, the architectures based on holarchy and agents are given. Then the framework of hybrid control strategy is outlined and the stability analysis for the closed-loop system is introduced. The major contribution of this work is the exploration for using hybrid control approach into disturbance management mechanism. The switched disturbance detector is presented and the identification algorithm is given. The hybrid controller is designed to reject the disturbance by switching between reactions against diagnosed symptoms. Finally, the case study onto the mobile manipulator hybrid system verifies the effectiveness and applicability of this design method. It validates the agility, efficiency, and retaining stability to system of the holonic multiagent concept for industrial or other application systems. Keywords Manufacturing system · Holonic · Multiagent · Disturbance management · Hybrid control
This work was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province (2011FZ169), the Open Fund of Key Laboratory in Software Engineering of Yunnan Province (2011SE15), and the Scientific Research Foundation for Talented Scholars of Yunnan Nationalities University. J. Lei () · Z.-Y. Yang School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Yunnan Nationalities University, Kunming 650500, China e-mail: [email protected] J. Lei Key Laboratory of Software Engineering of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650091, China
1 Introduction Greek ‘holos’ with a suffix ‘on’ is coined the word ‘holon’, which means a whole with parts and a part of a whole. This concept was invented by Koestler [1] and subsequently extended its application into manufacturing systems by international researchers and engineering, e.g., [2–8, 14–21]. Holonic multiagent system appears as suitable new paradigms to address the challenges, since traditional manufacturing systems are large monolithic and centralized control, adapted on a case-by-case basis, requiring an expansible and huge time-consuming effort to implement, maintain, or reconfigure the control application. Holonic multiagent system is a way to organize manufacturing systems which can meet the requirements such as cooperativeness, integrability, recursiveness, and localized information and decision-making authority [5] and implement manufacturing control systems that exhibit innovative features, such as agile response to the occurrence of disturbances and dynamic reconfiguration without stopping, reprogramming, or restarting the process, based on distributed and intelligent control approaches [6]. However, a HMS is prone to suffer disturbances, such as rush orders, operation delays, machine break
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