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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 81, 2016
2016 5th International Conference on Transportation and Traffic Engineering (ICTTE 2016)
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Article Number | 06005 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Supply Chains | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20168106005 | |
Published online | 25 October 2016 |
Efficient Messaging through Cluster Coordinators in Decentralized Controlled Material Flow Systems
1 Technical University of Munich, Institute for Materials Handling, Material Flow and Logistics, Munich, Germany
2 Technical University of Munich, Institute of Automation and Information Systems, Munich, Germany
The modularization of the hard- and software is one approach handling the demand for increasing flexibility and changeability of automated material flow systems. A control that is distributed across several different hardware controllers leads to a great demand for coordination between the modules while planning for example transports, especially if there is a mutual dependency between the modules on the executing tasks. Short-term changes in planning often initiate a rescheduling chain reaction, which causes a high communication load in the system. In the presented approach, module clusters with a centralized coordinator are automatically formed out of multiple modules and substitutional take over the surrounding communication for the modules. As a result, they minimize exchanged messages by focusing on the essential information.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2016
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