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A Multi Agent System architecture to implement Collaborative Learning for social industrial assets

Accepted version
Peer-reviewed

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Conference Object

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Authors

Bakliwal, Kshitij 
Dhada, Maharshi Harshadbhai 
Salvador Palau, adria 
Parlikad, AKN 
Lad, Bhupesh Kumar 

Abstract

The Industrial Internet of Things' aims to connect industrial assets with one another and subsequently bene t from the data that is generated, and shared, among these assets. In recent years, the extensive instrumentation of machines and the advancements in Information Communication Technologies are re-shaping the role of assets in our industrial systems. An emerging paradigm here is the concept of social assets': assets that collaborate with each other in order to improve system performance. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are formed by embedding the assets with computing capabilities and linking them with their cyber models. These are known as the Digital Twins' of the assets, and form the backbone of social assets. Collaboration among assets, by allowing them to share and analyse data from other assets can make embedded computing algorithms more accurate, robust and reliable. This paper proposes a Multi Agent System (MAS) architecture for collaborative learning, and presents the fi ndings of an implementation of this architecture for a prognostics problem. Collaboration among assets is performed by calculating inter-asset similarity during operating condition to identify friends' and sharing operational data within these clusters of friends. The architecture described in this paper also presents a generic model for the Digital Twins of assets. Prognostics is demonstrated for the C-MAPSS turbofan engine degradation simulated data-set (Saxena and Goebel (2008)).

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Keywords

Cyber-Physical Systems, Industrial Internet of Things, Digital Twins, Collaborative Learning, Industry Automation, Multi Agent Systems, Distributed Computing

Journal Title

IFAC-PapersOnLine

Conference Name

16th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing

Journal ISSN

2405-8963
2405-8963

Volume Title

51

Publisher

IFAC Secretariat
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (645733)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K000314/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L010917/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/I019308/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R004935/1)