Enhanced agents in shared factory: Enabling high-efficiency self-organization and sustainability of the shared manufacturing resources
Enhanced agents in shared factory: Enabling high-efficiency self-organization and sustainability of the shared manufacturing resources
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126020
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发表时间：
2021-04
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Pulin Li;P. Jiang
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作者：
Pulin Li;P. Jiang
共享工厂（SharedF）是共享经济的产物，是一种无围墙的工厂，能够实现共享制造资源的高效自组织和可持续发展。在可持续SharedF的背景下，提出了一种全新的增强型自组织Agent（Enhanced Self-organizing Agent，ESA），通过自组织通信和协商机制，帮助共享的制造资源实现交叉共享。ESA是一种动态的软硬件集成，能够实时感知和预处理外部社会环境，具有自决策和自学习能力，并能与其他ESA进行社会化。然后，提出了ESA的定义、组成、运行逻辑、分类、演化和自组织交互。通过一个3D打印的SharedF原型，证明了SharedF中的ESA是一种经济高效的组织架构，能够充分利用共享的制造资源，符合可持续制造的理念。这项工作提供了一种可靠和灵活的方式来重新配置闲置或多余的共享资源，最大限度地减少负面环境影响，同时节省能源和自然资源。
Shared factory (SharedF), succeed from the sharing economy, is defined as a kind of fenceless plant which enables high-efficiency self-organization and sustainability of the shared manufacturing resources. This paper proposes a brand-new Enhanced Self-organizing Agent (ESA) in the context of sustainable SharedF, which helps the shared manufacturing resources realize cross-sharing with self-organizing communication and negotiation mechanisms. ESA is a kind of dynamic software and hardware integration, which can sense and pre-process the real-time external social contexts, have the ability of self-decision makings and self-learning, and socialize with other ESAs. Then, the definition, components, operational logic, classification, evolution, and self-organizing interactions of ESAs are proposed. After that, by illustrating a 3D-printing SharedF prototype, it is proved that the ESAs in SharedF is an economical and efficient organizational architecture, which can gain the utilization of the shared manufacturing resources and fit the idea of sustainable manufacturing. This work gives a reliable and flexible way to reconfigure the idle or excess shared resources that minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources.