Industrial Agents as a Key Enabler for Realizing Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: Multiagent Systems Entering Industry 4.0
- Industrial agents (IAs) [1] are multiagent-based systems (MASs) [2] that, for many years, have been advocated as a promising and realistic solution for an emerging set of industrial challenges. In the past, MASs fell into the scope of enterprise agility [3]-[8], and now, more than ever, pertain to the industrial digital transformation and sustainability spheres. MAS technology is being applied to several industrial applications in the cyber-physical system (CPS) context, namely, in smart production, smart electric grids, smart logistics, and smart health care [9]. To understand the future potential of IAs, one must first have a sufficiently concise view of the past and present efforts, i.e., understand their early applications and current directions. Such a view is necessary because, over the last decades, the concept of the IA has proven to be a bit of a moving target, adjusting to the needs, visions, and technologies of each era.
| Author: | Stamatis Karnouskos, Paulo Leitao, Luis Ribeiro, Armando W. ColomboORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/MIE.2019.2962225 |
| ISSN: | 1932-4529; 1941-0115 |
| Parent Title (English): | IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2020 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/09/24 |
| Creating Corporation: | IEEE |
| Release Date: | 2024/12/05 |
| Tag: | Agent In Industry; Enablers; Industrial Cyber-physical Systems; Industrial Systems; Multi-agent Systems |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| First Page: | 18 |
| Last Page: | 32 |
| Institute: | Fachbereich Technik |
| Research Focus Area: | Industrielle Informatik |
