Patrick Peeters

TL;DR: An overview of the holonic reference architecture for manufacturing systems as developed at PMA-KULeuven, which shows PROSA shows to cover aspects of both hierarchical as well as heterarchical control approaches.

TL;DR: A development approach for agent-based shop floor control systems is presented, that uses co-ordination concepts as observable in insect colonies to introduce better response to unanticipated disturbance situations and better handling of ‘reconfiguration’ in production environments.

TL;DR: The paper presents the HMS reference architecture for manufacturing control, and addresses the overall design problem, i.e. designing both the holonic control system and the underlying manufacturing system.

TL;DR: In this paper, a development approach for agent-based shop floor control systems is presented, that uses co-ordination concepts as observable in insect colonies, where agents operate within an information distribution environment, where information is made available in the form of artificial pheromones.

TL;DR: In this article, an architecture for reactive scheduling that enables concurrent scheduling and schedule execution is presented, where disturbances occur, the system reacts to them at several levels: an on-line shop floor control system reacts immediately, and the reactive scheduler responds more slowly, but with a higher response time.