Deployment of an ontology-based agent architecture on a controller

Multi-agent systems have proven to be a powerful technology for improving flexibility and agility in a complex manufacturing environment. In such systems, an ontology is a crucial element for knowledge representation of the external environment or the agent´s domain of application as well as for ensuring interoperability between agents. The agent´s decision component uses this world representation to coordinate the global behavior of the agent and delegate specific tasks. The placement of the agent´s decision part on a controller brings improvements in scalability, reconfigurability as well as less dependency from human intervention. In this paper we describe an important step needed to be done by excluding the unnecessary GUIs and by directly connecting the used software tools in order to place the entire framework on an embedded controller.