Interoperable language family for agent interaction in industrial applications

Author

Treytl, Albert ; Khan, Basit ; Wagner, Thomas

Author_Institution

Austrian Acad. of Sci., Neustadt

fYear

2007

fDate

25-28 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

863

Lastpage

871

Abstract

Agent based systems allows to introduce additional flexibility to distributed control systems (DCS) in manufacturing. Shifting decision making processes from enterprise resource planning (ERP) to the manufacturing execution system (MES) allows to react in more flexible manner to changes in orders and shop floor environment. The definition of an appropriate language is vital to allow seamless and unobstructed interaction between agents. This article analyses the requirements and objectives of a content description language for industrial systems. It introduces an ontology-based set of representation languages and transformations being adaptable to different system requirements. An implementation within the PABADIS´PROMISE project is given, demonstrating the applicability of the concepts.

Keywords

manufacturing systems; multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); open systems; agent based systems; agent interaction; enterprise resource planning; industrial applications; interoperable language family; manufacturing execution system; ontology; Automatic control; Communication system control; Electrical equipment industry; Enterprise resource planning; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing processes; Ontologies; Production systems; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2007. ETFA. IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Patras

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0825-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0826-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EFTA.2007.4416870

Filename

4416870