Myopic Behaviour in Holonic Multiagent Systems for Distributed Control of FMS

摘要

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are particularly adapted to deal with dy-namic distributed environments and are typically used to manage business work-flows or data flows in manufacturing systems. But, the lack of a global view and reference of the whole system by the low-level and physical parts, to actually guar-antee optimal decision-making had been labelled by some researchers as 'Myopia'. Thus, this paper intents to identify some Myopias, involved in a decentralised man-agement of production systems. A HoIoMAS (Holonic MultiAgent System), whose elementary parts show signs of myopia, is defined; and we validated our Ho1oMAS proposal using simulations and through a real implementation on a flexible assem-bly cell in our university lab.