Abstract: With the ever increasing complex sensing and actuating tasks in manufacturing
plants, intelligent sensors cluster in hybrid networks becomes a rapidly expanding area.
They play a dominant role in many fields from macro and micro scale. Global object control
and the ability to self organize into fault-tolerant and scalable systems are expected for high
level applications. In this paper, new structural concepts of intelligent sensors and networks
with new intelligent agents are presented. Embedding new functionalities to dynamically
manage cooperative agents for autonomous machines are interesting key enabling
technologies most required in manufacturing for zero defects production.