Formalisation of Problem and Domain Definition for Agent Oriented Smart Factory (AOSF)

Abstract

Industry 4.0 is revolutionising recent industrial setups. Literature has examined the idea of Smart Factory under the umbrella of Industry 4.0 extensively, but further research into the applicability of such frameworks for Small to Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) is still required. To help address this issue, the Agent-Oriented Smart Factory (AOSF) framework focuses on a multi-agent architecture for end-to-end Supply Chain (SC) in SMEs. This paper presents a Cyber Physical System (CPS) based extension to the general AOSF framework and design heuristics for problem and domain definition of Agent Oriented Storage and Retrieval (AOSR) warehouse system using Multi-Agent Hierarchical Task Networking (MA-HTN) planning formalism.