2022
Oliver Antons; Julia C. Arlinghaus
A Manufacturing Scheduling Complexity Framework and Agent-Based Comparison of Centralized and Distributed Control Approaches Journal Article
In: IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 31-38, 2022.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Autonomy & Decision-making Authority, Complexity Theory, Decentralized Control, Job-shop scheduling, Manufacturing, Optimization, Production
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title = {A Manufacturing Scheduling Complexity Framework and Agent-Based Comparison of Centralized and Distributed Control Approaches},
author = {Oliver Antons and Julia C. Arlinghaus},
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abstract = {Centralized approaches are often employed to control manufacturing networks in practice. The introduction of industrial cyber-physical systems driven by advances in microcontroller, sensor, and networking technologies is providing distributed control systems with the technical requirements needed to mitigate the drawbacks of centralized control, such as long optimization times that result in long planning horizons and inflexibility. While such distributed control approaches respond to the growing challenges faced by industry in terms of flexibility, resilience, and lot sizes, the inherent myopia of autonomous agents may discourage practical application. In this article, we develop a scheduling complexity framework derived from the literature, which allows researchers and prationers alike to evaluate the suitability of both centralized and distributed control approaches for manufacturing planning and control. This framework utilizes quantifiable environment variables, which influence we study by means of a multiagent discrete event simulation.},
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Centralized approaches are often employed to control manufacturing networks in practice. The introduction of industrial cyber-physical systems driven by advances in microcontroller, sensor, and networking technologies is providing distributed control systems with the technical requirements needed to mitigate the drawbacks of centralized control, such as long optimization times that result in long planning horizons and inflexibility. While such distributed control approaches respond to the growing challenges faced by industry in terms of flexibility, resilience, and lot sizes, the inherent myopia of autonomous agents may discourage practical application. In this article, we develop a scheduling complexity framework derived from the literature, which allows researchers and prationers alike to evaluate the suitability of both centralized and distributed control approaches for manufacturing planning and control. This framework utilizes quantifiable environment variables, which influence we study by means of a multiagent discrete event simulation.
2021
Oliver Antons; Julia C. Arlinghaus
Learning Distributed Control for Job Shops-A Comparative Simulation Study Proceedings Article
In: Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future: Proceedings of SOHOMA 2020, pp. 193–202, Springer International Publishing 2021.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Autonomy & Decision-making Authority, Discrete-event simulation, Job-shop scheduling, Multi-agent system, Production planning and control, Self-learning
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title = {Learning Distributed Control for Job Shops-A Comparative Simulation Study},
author = {Oliver Antons and Julia C. Arlinghaus},
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abstract = {This paper studies the potentials of learning and benefits of local data processing in a distributed control setting. We deploy a multi-agent system in the context of a discrete-event simulation to model distributed control for a job shop manufacturing system with variable processing times and multi-stage production processes. Within this simulation, we compare queue length estimation as dispatching rule against a variation with learning capability, which processes additional historic data on a machine agent level, showing the potentials of learning and coordination for distributed control in PPC.},
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This paper studies the potentials of learning and benefits of local data processing in a distributed control setting. We deploy a multi-agent system in the context of a discrete-event simulation to model distributed control for a job shop manufacturing system with variable processing times and multi-stage production processes. Within this simulation, we compare queue length estimation as dispatching rule against a variation with learning capability, which processes additional historic data on a machine agent level, showing the potentials of learning and coordination for distributed control in PPC.