Multi agent system for the simulation of an aircraft structure design process

This paper investigates an approach based on a Multi Agents System (MAS) for aircraft structure design such as fuselage frame part. More precisely, we propose a simulation of an engineering process through the design of a local and distributed decision model. To design the system, first we use the MESSAGE (Caire et al. 2001) methodology to formalize the problem through a description of the role organisation. Then we describe the identified agent and the chosen resolution strategy. An application using fuzzy logic and the Multi-Agent framework (JADE) was successfully developed. We are now considering the possibility to extend the results to other structural parts of the aircraft and also to investigate other areas, where the key issue is to define/simulate appropriate technical or human organisations.