Robonomics Based on Blockchain as a Principle of Creating Smart Factories

Abstract

The paper describes work organization methods for manufacturing with plenty of autonomous agents with the help of market mechanisms what authors call robot economy. As a technological basis, the application of decentralized technologies is presented and justified: Blockchain technologies and smart contracts of the Ethereum network. The paper is an extension of the article “Blockchain-based protocol of autonomous business activity for multi-agent systems of UAVs” and describes in more detail the architecture of the robots economy protocol. The main attention is paid to the protocol functionality and its basic elements. There is a description of the architecture of an autonomous agent working on the principles of robot economy in the article. The article shows how the work of a smart factory is organized. As a result, the experience of approbation of the presented methods in various projects and experiments is presented.