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This paper discusses an autonomous distributed control system to overcome the deficiencies in robustness, flexibility, and set-up speed of traditional centralized control systems. In order to implement the autonomous distributed control necessary for intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS), we propose a model and a method to realize this model. The model consists of numerous autonomous agents, and a field where these agents can exchange information for cooperation. The autonomous distributed control system model was applied to an automated guided vehicle (AGV) system. Here, each agent was modelled with Petri net and the communication among agents was presented using message passing. Also, numerical simulations were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of our model.
