Application of a communication interface between agents and the low level control

Author

Merdan, Munir ; Lepuschitz, Wilfried ; Hegny, Ingo ; Koppensteiner, Gottfried

Author_Institution

Autom. & Control Inst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna

fYear

2009

fDate

10-12 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

628

Lastpage

633

Abstract

Increasing complexity in the transport domain requires flexible and reconfigurable control architectures. In this paper we present the deployment of an agent-based system in this domain splitting the manufacturing control into two layers: a high level control based on agents and a low level control based on the standard IEC 61499. A further focus is laid on the design of a generic communication interface between the control layers and a graphical representation of the target system that allows the simulation of failure scenarios.

Keywords

IEC standards; flexible manufacturing systems; multi-agent systems; production control; reconfigurable architectures; software agents; IEC 61499 standard; agent-based system; flexible control architectures; generic communication interface; graphical representation; low level control; manufacturing control; reconflgurable control architectures; Application software; Automatic control; Centralized control; Communication system control; Control systems; Distributed control; IEC standards; Level control; Manufacturing; Robotics and automation; IEC 61499; communication interface; multi-agent system; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomous Robots and Agents, 2009. ICARA 2009. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wellington

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2712-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2713-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICARA.2000.4804006

Filename

4804006