Hypothetical reasoning approach for Automated Guided Vehicle action decision in Autonomous Decentralised Flexible Manufacturing Systems
by Rizauddin Ramli, Hidehiko Yamamoto, Jaber Abu Qudeiri
International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (IJISTA), Vol. 7, No. 2, 2009

Abstract: This paper presents an approach of hypothetical reasoning for action decision of Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) in Autonomous Decentralised Flexible Manufacturing Systems (AD-FMS). The AD-FMS is characterised as being online, in real-time mode and of a short-term nature that responds to frequent changing of the production order. The decentralised control in AD-FMS enables to solve dynamically some typical task of production system without using a fixed centralised control system. We adopt a hypothetical reasoning approach that will decide the conceivable next action from the competition hypothesis. Simulation results show that the efficiency of AGV in AD-FMS increased.

Online publication date: Tue, 26-May-2009

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