An Ontology-Based Reconfiguration Agent for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems

  • Authors:

  • Yazen Al-Safi;Valeriy Vyatkin

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Auckland, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • HoloMAS '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Industrial Applications of Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems: Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper discusses an ontology-based reconfiguration agent that uses ontological knowledge of the manufacturing environment for the purpose of reconfiguration without human intervention. The current mass customization era requires increased flexibility and agility in the manufacturing systems to adapt changes in manufacturing requirements and environments. Our configuration agent minimizes the overheads of the current reconfiguration process by automating it. It infers facts about the manufacturing environment from the ontological knowledge model and then decides whether the current environment can support the given manufacturing requirements.