HUST-CDMS: A Test-bed for Collaborative Design and Manufacturing

Author

Rao, Yunqing ; Shao, Xinyu ; Li, Peigen

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Sci. & Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

3-5 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A test-bed (HUST-CDMS) for collaborative product design and manufacturing is described in this paper. This test-bed is constructed by using a CORBA and MAS based system architecture, where diverse and heterogeneous design and manufacturing resources are MAS-based agentified and CORBA-based encapsulated as resource agents and subsequently integrated in the system. These resource agents communicate and interact with each other by means of agent interoperation and human-machine interaction to achieve a collaborative design and manufacturing environment, aiming at reducing the lead time and costs

Keywords

CAD/CAM; distributed object management; groupware; human computer interaction; multi-agent systems; product design; production engineering computing; CORBA; HUST-CDMS; agent interoperation; collaborative manufacturing environment; collaborative product design; human-machine interaction; multiagent system architecture; resource agent communication; Application software; Collaborative work; Computer aided manufacturing; Costs; International collaboration; Man machine systems; Manufacturing systems; Product design; Pulp manufacturing; System testing; CORBA; Collaborative Design and Manufacturing; MAS; Test-bed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0164-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0165-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2006.253014

Filename

4019050