The Meaningfulness of Consensus and Context in Diagnosing Evolvable Production Systems
Abstract
An Evolvable Production System (EPS) is a complex
and lively entity composed of intelligent modules that interact, through
bio-inspired mechanisms, to ensure high system availability and seamless
reconfiguration. The diagnosis of such dynamic systems, characterized by
constant change, presents new diagnostic challenges and opportunities
that can hardly be tackled by traditional approaches. On the one hand,
given the decoupled nature of the system, fault interaction and
propagation are harder to detect and contain, as is the development of a
global diagnostic model, on the other hand local intelligence and
careful characterization of the interactions, between the modules, can
be explored to emerge the diagnostic functionalities. The impact of
simple consensus mechanisms (majority voting) and fault context analysis
(module and its current interactions states) is assessed in a
multiagent-oriented application in the assembly domain to understand the
validity and contribution of this approach in emerging useful
self-diagnostic properties in EPS.
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