March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
476 pages
17h 38m
English
Paulo Leitão1,2; Nelson Rodrigues1,2; Claudio Turrin3; Arnaldo Pagani3 1 Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal2 LIACC—Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory, Porto, Portugal3 Whirlpool Europe, Cassinetta di Biandronno, Italy
This chapter describes the development, installation, and operation of a multi-agent system, designated as GRACE, integrating quality and process control to operate in a real home appliance production line, producing laundry washing machines owned by Whirlpool and located in Naples, Italy.
Keywords
Intelligent and reconfigurable manufacturing control
Multi-agent systems ...