A holonic-based method for design process of cyber-physical reconfigurable systems

Recent advances in manufacturing industry has led the way for the most frequently discussed topic among practitioners and academics which is cyber physical systems (CPSs). Design process of cyber physical reconfigurable systems (CPRSs) operating in a dynamic environment is a significant challenge when a meaningful coordination of tasks between human to machine and machine to machine is required. This work presents a method based on system engineering “V” model and the holonic concept to deal with design process of CPRSs, as well as, we propose complete steps to explain how to adopt configuration from the customization to the software implementation in the operational resources. To address this method, an example of CPRSs is provided for showing the interactions of autonomous holonic agents and to give the impact of coordinated tasks in the holonic multi-agent platform in terms of code reusability and modularity. This methodology offers substantive advantages over traditional process-design methods, which are often nonintegrated and require large quantities of iteration and long development times.