Dynamic distributed decision-making for resilient resource reallocation in disrupted manufacturing systems

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Hauptverfasser: Bi, Mingjie, Kovalenko, Ilya, Tilbury, Dawn M., Barton, Kira
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author Bi, Mingjie
Kovalenko, Ilya
Tilbury, Dawn M.
Barton, Kira
author_facet Bi, Mingjie
Kovalenko, Ilya
Tilbury, Dawn M.
Barton, Kira
contents The COVID-19 pandemic brings many unexpected disruptions, such as frequently shifting markets and limited human workforce, to manufacturers. To stay competitive, flexible and real-time manufacturing decision-making strategies are needed to deal with such highly dynamic manufacturing environments. One essential problem is dynamic resource allocation to complete production tasks, especially when a resource disruption (e.g., machine breakdown) occurs. Though multi-agent methods have been proposed to solve the problem in a flexible and agile manner, the agent internal decision-making process and resource uncertainties have rarely been studied. This work introduces a model-based resource agent (RA) architecture that enables effective agent coordination and dynamic agent decision-making. Based on the RA architecture, a rescheduling strategy that incorporates risk assessment via a clustering agent coordination strategy is also proposed. A simulation-based case study is implemented to demonstrate dynamic rescheduling using the proposed multi-agent framework. The results show that the proposed method reduces the computational efforts while losing some throughput optimality compared to the centralized method. Furthermore, the case study illustrates that incorporating risk assessment into rescheduling decision-making improves the throughput.
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spellingShingle Dynamic distributed decision-making for resilient resource reallocation in disrupted manufacturing systems
Bi, Mingjie
Kovalenko, Ilya
Tilbury, Dawn M.
Barton, Kira
Multiagent Systems
Systems and Control
The COVID-19 pandemic brings many unexpected disruptions, such as frequently shifting markets and limited human workforce, to manufacturers. To stay competitive, flexible and real-time manufacturing decision-making strategies are needed to deal with such highly dynamic manufacturing environments. One essential problem is dynamic resource allocation to complete production tasks, especially when a resource disruption (e.g., machine breakdown) occurs. Though multi-agent methods have been proposed to solve the problem in a flexible and agile manner, the agent internal decision-making process and resource uncertainties have rarely been studied. This work introduces a model-based resource agent (RA) architecture that enables effective agent coordination and dynamic agent decision-making. Based on the RA architecture, a rescheduling strategy that incorporates risk assessment via a clustering agent coordination strategy is also proposed. A simulation-based case study is implemented to demonstrate dynamic rescheduling using the proposed multi-agent framework. The results show that the proposed method reduces the computational efforts while losing some throughput optimality compared to the centralized method. Furthermore, the case study illustrates that incorporating risk assessment into rescheduling decision-making improves the throughput.
title Dynamic distributed decision-making for resilient resource reallocation in disrupted manufacturing systems
topic Multiagent Systems
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19043