Industrial Agents: Recent Advances and Future Challenges
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2024 | Viewed by 1325
Special Issue Editors
Interests: smart manufacturing; automation systems; multi-agent systems; application orchestration
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Dear Colleagues,
Industrial agents play key roles in the realization of the fourth industrial revolution, or industry 4.0, by enabling the development of industrial cyber–physical systems (ICPSs). Industrial agents possess all the capabilities and features of multi-agent systems or MAS (the flexibility and ability to make decisions autonomously, enabling competition and/or collaboration with each other to achieve their objectives), enhanced with the ability to integrate and manage factory assets such as robots or PLCs. This way, the industrial agents paradigm extends and particularizes the requirements and characteristics of MAS to the manufacturing domain, supported by recently published standards such as IEEE 2660.1 and VDI 2653.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to promote and collate the efforts that are currently underwat in the development of ICPSs based on the paradigm of industrial agents. In this way, this Special Issue intends to cover both the resolution of technical problems by using industrial agents and their applicability to develop solutions compliant to the main reference architectures for industry 4.0, such as the reference architectural model industrie 4.0 (RAMI) 4.0 and the industrial internet reference architecture (IIRA).
Dr. Oskar Casquero
Dr. Aintzane Armentia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- industrial agents
- industrial cyber–physical systems
- fourth industrial revolution
- industry 4.0
- IEEE 2660.1
- VDI 2653
- reference architectural model industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
- industrial internet reference architecture (IIRA)
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