On the engineering design for systematic integration of agent-orientation in industrial automation

Author

Liyong Yu ; Schuller, Alexander ; Epple, Ulrich

Author_Institution

Dept. of Process Control Eng., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

12-14 June 2013

Firstpage

345

Lastpage

350

Abstract

In today´s automation industry, agent-oriented development of system functionalities appears to have great potential for increasing autonomy and flexibility of complex operations, while lowering the workload of users. In this paper we present a reference model for the harmonious and systematical integration of agent-orientation in industrial automation. Considering compatibility with existing automation systems and best practice, this model combines advantages of function block technology, service orientation and native description methods from the automation standard IEC 61131-3. This approach can be applied as a guideline for the engineering design of future agent-oriented automation systems.

Keywords

automation; design engineering; service-oriented architecture; software agents; agent orientation; agent oriented automation system; agent oriented development; automation industry; engineering design; function block technology; industrial automation system; reference model; service orientation; systematic integration; systematical integration; Automation; Process control; Software; Standards; Unified modeling language; Valves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Automation (ICCA), 2013 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

ISSN

1948-3449

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4707-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCA.2013.6564999

Filename

6564999