Modeling Approach For A Flexible Manufacturing Control System

Within research and development different agent based control architectures are presented. Up to now there is no existing approach to validate the applicability of an agent architecture to control problems. This paper presents the first results of an ongoing research activity towards an interdisciplinary modeling approach to validate the quality of Multi-Agent System (MAS) architectures for the implementation of flexible control systems. It is based on the description of the methodology and its example application to a special supervisor based agent architecture.