Physical Artifacts for Agents in a Cyber-Physical System: A Case Study in Oil & Gas Scenario (EEAS)

Fabian Cesar Pereira Brandão Manoel, Carlos Eduardo Pantoja, Leandro Samyn, Vinicius Souza de Jesus

Abstract: Physical devices have been integrated with artificial intelligence to create Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) can provide pro-activity and autonomy using agents, social organizations, and environment modeling by means of artifacts. Usually, some works that use MAS for interfacing physical environments employ agents accessing directly all the available data of the environment, which could overload this agent. This issue could be avoided if there were tools to facilitate the integration of sensors and actuators as artifacts into the physical environment. Therefore, the objective of this work is to create physical artifacts capable of accessing hardware devices from a physical environment to be used by agents in a MAS. As the Oil & Gas industry demands robustness in its equipment and an ability to do predictive maintenance, a case study including MAS and CPS was developed and some tests were carried out to validate the functioning of physical artifacts.