Realtime Logistics: Echtzeitnahe Steuerung von Materialflusssystemen auf Basis autonomer Agenten und Entitäten

Nowadays, logistic and production systems are controlled consistently hierarchically. Decentralised and changeable systems with embedded fractal or adaptive elements or control cycles are the results of a precisely timed central planning. In contrast to this, “Realtime Logistics” is a realtime material flow control where the mission of the single logistic objects is carried out autonomously and self-controlled. Mobile software agents are used for this purpose which at first will operate synchronously to the object and in future will be embedded into the object