Agent based implementation of a Robot Arm and Smart Production Line using Jade Framework

Abstract

Constructing physical and cyber aspects of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) are quite challenging. There-fore, a suitable abstraction level on the software side should be selected to implement these complex systems. Software agents are proposed to develop cyber-physical systems (CPS) in the literature. On the physical side, technology such as Lego can mimic industrial processes by scaling down an existing industrial system while sustaining its functionality. Therefore, this study proposes an agent-based production line and gripper arm. Our motivation is to integrate software agents at the low level with the target system using an API for providing a substance for high-level approaches. As a result, a complex CPPS was controlled via software agents.