Development of multi-agent control systems using UML/SysML

Author

Antonova, I. ; Batchkova, I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. of Production, Univ. of Chem. Technol. & Metall., Sofia

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

6-8 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

42547

Lastpage

11475

Abstract

The object-oriented methodology is insufficient for developing agent-based control systems because it can not naturally represent the essential characteristics of agents, such as autonomous behavior, temporal continuity and cooperativety. The approach presented in this paper aims to extends UML for development agent-based control systems based on its profile for system engineering - SysML, the upcoming standard for distributed control systems IEC61499 and the unified FIPA communication protocols. The new approach is demonstrated with a case study of FESTO distribution station.

Keywords

IEC standards; Unified Modeling Language; control engineering computing; distributed control; multi-agent systems; protocols; systems engineering; FESTO distribution station; IEC61499; SysML; UML; distributed control system; multiagent control system; object-oriented methodology; system engineering; unified FIPA communication protocol; Application software; Automatic control; Automation; Communication system control; Control systems; Distributed control; Object oriented modeling; Standards development; Systems engineering and theory; Unified modeling language; FIPA; IEC 61499; UML/SysML; multi-agent control systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems, 2008. IS '08. 4th International IEEE Conference

Conference_Location

Varna

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1739-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1740-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IS.2008.4670435

Filename

4670435