Work Package Deliverables

1. "WP1 Dissemination Report: Analysis and evaluation of change and disturbances in industrial plants"
   introduction - full report (postscript 1,538kb)
    
2. "WP4 Dissemination Report: ACA (Autonomous Co-operating Agents) Framework for Manufacturing Control Systems"
   
   - Towards a novel manufacturing control principle
   - Manufacturing control algorithm and architecture
   - manAge: an agent architecture for manufacturing control
   - Application environment for the demonstrators and test case
   

1. Tapio Heikkilä, Martin Kollingbaum, Paul Valckenaers, Geert-Jan Bluemink, Patrick Peeters,
   "Distributed production control based on emergent agents",
   Accepted for STEP2000, Millennium of Artificial Intelligence, August 2000, Helsinki, Finland
    
2. Martin Kollingbaum, Tapio Heikkilä, Patrick Peeters, Jeremy Matson, Paul Valckenaers, Duncan McFarlane, Geert-Jan Bluemink,
   "Emergent flow shop control based on MASCADA agents",
   Accepted for the IFAC SYMPOSIUM ON MANUFACTURING, MODELING, MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL, MIM2000, July 12-14, 2000, Patras, Greece
    
3. Bluemink G-J., Heikkilä T., Kollingbaum M., Saavalainen P.,
   "Flexible software development for AGV supported flowshops: a simulator aided approach",
   Proceedings of the Scandinavian Symposium on Robotics '99, Oulu, October 15 - 16, 1999, pp. 211 - 219
    
4. Paul Valckenaers, Hendrik Van Brussel,
   "On a Fundamental Difference between Manufacturing Planning and Manufacturing Execution",
   Proceedings of The Advanced Summer Institute of the ICIMS-NOE (ASI99), Leuven, 1999
   abstract - full paper (postscript 405kb)
    
5. Patrick Peeters, Hendrik Van Brussel, Paul Valckenaers, Jo Wyns, Luc Bongaerts, Tapio Heikkilä, Martin Kollingbaum,
   "Pheromone based emergent shop floor control system for flexible flow shops",
   Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emergent Synthesis (IWES'99), Kobe, Japan, December 6-7, 1999, pp. 173-182
   abstract - full paper (postscript 872kb)
    
6. Paul Valckenaers, Hendrik Van Brussel, Jo Wyns, Patrick Peeters, Luc Bongaerts
   "Multi-Agent Manufacturing Control In Holonic Manufacturing Systems",
   Paper to be published in a Special Issue of Human Systems Management, from the Esprit Symposium on Distributed Enterprise, Intelligent Automation and Industrial Benchmarking.
    
7. Paul Valckenaers, Tapio Heikkilä, Hartwig Baumgaertel, Duncan McFarlane, Jean-Pierre Courtois,
   "Towards a novel manufacturing control principle",
   Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems 1999, H. Van Brussel and P. Valckenaers (Eds.), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1999, pp. 871-875 (ISBN 90-73802-69-5)
   introduction - full paper (postscript 455kb)
    
8. Patrick Peeters, Paul Valckenaers, Jo Wyns, Sven Brueckner,
   "Manufacturing control algorithm and architecture",
   Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems 1999, H. Van Brussel and P. Valckenaers (Eds.), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1999, pp. 877-888 (ISBN 90-73802-69-5)
   abstract - full paper (postscript 1463kb)
    
9. Tapio Heikkilä, Martin Kollingbaum, Paul Valckenaers, Geert-Jan Bluemink
   "manAge: an agent architecture for manufacturing control",
   Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems 1999, H. Van Brussel and P. Valckenaers (Eds.), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1999, pp. 127-136 (ISBN 90-73802-69-5)
   abstract - full paper (postscript 703kb)
    
10. Tapio Heikkilä, Jean-Pierre Courtois, Hartwig Baumgaertel, Jo Wyns,
    "Application environment for the demonstrators and test case",
    Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems 1999, H. Van Brussel and P. Valckenaers (Eds.), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1999, pp. 889-897 (ISBN 90-73802-69-5)
    introduction - full paper (postscript 695kb)
     
11. PMA 98P086
    Patrick Peeters, Hendrik Van Brussel, Paul Valckenaers, Jo Wyns
    "Methodology to integrate simulation in the development phase of shop floor systems",
    Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing 1999, J. Ashayeri, W.G. Sullivan, M.M. Ahmed (eds.), Begell House Inc, 1999, pp. 761-771 (ISBN 1-56700-133-5)
    abstract
     
12. Brückner, S, Wyns, J, Peeters, P, Kollingbaum, M
    "Designing Agents for the Manufacturing Control",
    Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing Research Planning Workshop - State of the Art & State of the Practice, G.F. Luger (ed.), AAAI Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1998, pp. 40-46, ISBN 1-57735-072-3 SIGMAN98
    abstract - full paper (postscript 555kb)
     
13. Patrick Peeters, Tapio Heikkilä, Stefan Bussman, Jo Wyns, Paul Valckenaers, Hendrik Van Brussel,
    "Novel Manufacturing System Requirements in Automated, Line-Oriented Discrete Assembly",
    Presented at the fourth IMS-WG workshop (Working Group on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, ESPRIT 21955), Sept 16-18, 1998, Nancy, France
    abstract - full paper (postscript 668kb)
     
14. Frizelle, G, McFarlane, D, Bongaerts, L,
    "Disturbance Measurement in Manufacturing Production Systems",
    Proceedings of the ASI-98 of NOE on ICIMS (Advanced Summer Institute '98 of the Esprit Network of Excellence in Intelligent Control and Integrated Manufacturing Systems), Bremen, 14-17 June 1998, pp. 159-162
    abstract - full paper (postscript 413kb)
     

1. Mascada special session at the Second International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems 1999 (IMS'99), September 22-24, 1999, Leuven, Belgium
   September 24, 10h15-15h45:
   1. Introduction to the Mascada project
   2. Rationales of the nnew Mascada control system
   3. How the pheromone concept is applied
   4. Examples and demos
   5. Demonstrator 1: the steel case
   6. Demonstrator 2: the electronics case
   7. Testbed: the automotive case
      
   8. Guidelines and evaluation
   9. Conclusion, Questions and Answers
    
2. Sven Brueckner,
   "MASCADA: Manufacturing Control Systems Capable of Managing Production Change and Disturbances",
   AgentLink (The European Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing), Newsletter 1, November 1998, pp. 16-19
   article (postscript 251kb)