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The world is moving towards to the fourth industrial revolution, usually linked with the Industrie 4.0 initiative, enables the digitization of manufacturing factories by using Cyber-Physical Systems and emergent technologies like Internet of Things and Internet of Services. The seamless reconfiguration of these complex industrial cyber-physical systems is an important challenge for the complete implementation...
The role of human in the Industrie 4.0 vision is still considered as irreplaceable. Therefore, user interfaces of cyber-physical systems involved in the production automation need to be well designed and taking into consideration the industrial application requirements. With the advances in augmented and virtual reality data visualization and novel interaction techniques like mid-air gestures, these...
The self-sustainability of micro grids is an important challenge in the smart grids field due to the need to balance the fast growing energy consumption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy independence by using renewable resources. The use of decentralized paradigms, and particularly multi-agent systems and holonic control, enable to face this challenge by implementing intelligent...
Micro grid represents an emergent paradigm to address the challenges of recent smart electrical grid visions, where several small-scale and distributed electrical units cooperate to achieve higher levels of energy self-sustainability, by reducing the main grid dependence. Nevertheless, the realization of this paradigm requires advanced intelligent approaches that are able to effectively manage the...
This paper provides an overview of the actual developments on smart grids, particularly analysing the efforts on research and development in the different regions in the world. The paper also discusses the roles of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) in the future development of smart grids. Particularly, it highlights the importance of power simulation...
Micro grids play an important role in the context of smart grids, improving the system reliability, resilience and stability. In case of micro grids disconnected from the main grid, due to geographical reasons or failure in the service provider, the self-sustainability management is a key issue. This paper discusses agent-based automation and control approaches to handle the self-sustainability in...
The multi-agent systems technology is a proper approach to implement distributed manufacturing systems exhibiting adaptation and flexibility. This paper proposes a multi-agent based solution for the adaptation of the functional test plan in a production line producing washing machines, aiming to increase the process productivity and product quality. The global adaptation mechanism is embedded on the...
This paper describes the formal modelling and validation of the behaviour of a multi-agent system that integrates the production and quality control processes in a washing machine production line. The modelling, analysis and validation process uses the Petri nets formalism that provides a rigorous and formal language based on its powerful mathematical foundation, supporting the complete verification...
Multi-agent systems (MAS) are driving the way to design and engineer control solutions that exhibit flexibility, adaptation and reconfigurability, which are important advantages over traditional centralized systems. The understanding, design and testing of such distributed agent-based approaches, and particularly those exhibiting self-∗properties, are usually a hard task. Simulation assumes a crucial...
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