Fuzzy distributed multi-agent manufacturing system

The kernel of the modern industrial technology, particularly, such ifs constituents as CIM and FMS is distributed artificial intelligence (DAI). This paper considers the concept, construction principles, architecture, and interaction mechanisms of agents of distributed intelligent systems for continuous industrial branches, particularly, oil-refinery plants. The environment of such plants is characterized by uncertainty imprecision, missing and incomplete data and knowledge, and is supposed to be fuzzy and thus the Fuzzy Distributed multi-agent Intelligent System (FDIS) is considered. Rules and conventions protocols of interactions between intelligent agents, organization, structure, control strategy, and communication in FDIS for oil refinery plant are considered. A fragment of experimental results is given concerning working of the FDIS on an oil-refinery plant.