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The intention of the manuscript is to give the overview of alternative control approaches that have been applied in industrial automation domain for more than two decades. Apart from more traditional centralized and hierarchical approaches the discussed ones are built on distributed, autonomous and intelligent entities that provide and consume services in networked environments. The key drivers have been holonic concept, multi-agent systems and recently service-oriented architectures. The talk discusses the major benefits as well as prevailing roadblocks hindering the widespread exploitation and deployment in real factories. It reviews the principle methodologies, architectures, tools and either pilot trials or commercially successful applications of industrial agent systems with major focus on achievements of the Rockwell Automation company.
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Vrba, P. (2013). Review of Industrial Applications of Multi-agent Technologies. In: Borangiu, T., Thomas, A., Trentesaux, D. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi Agent Manufacturing and Robotics. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 472. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35852-4_21
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