Intelligent Automated Process: a Multi Agent Robotic Emulator

The demands of modern industry push towards new adaptive and configurable production systems where multiagent techniques and technologies, suitable for modular, decentralized, complex and time varying environments, can be exploited. In this work a generic assembly line is evaluated and the basic features, problems and non-idealities that can occur during the production are taken into account for evaluating and developing an intelligent automated emulated process made of Multi-Agent Robotic Systems. A simplified agentification of the process is made: the main elements of the production are modeled as an agent while the operators that work to restock the local working station stores are considered as autonomous (robotic) agents.