IEC 61499 Architecture, Engineering Methodologies and Software Tools
BASYS '02 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.3 Fifth IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing and Services: Knowledge and Technology Integration in Production and Services: Balancing Knowledge in Product and Service Life Cycle
Automatic control application recovery in distributed IEC 61499 based automation and control systems
DIS '06 Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications
IEC 61499 Function Blocks for Embedded and Distributed Control Systems Design
IEC 61499 Function Blocks for Embedded and Distributed Control Systems Design
Industrial deployment of multi-agent technologies: review and selected case studies
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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IEC 61499 Functional Blocks is an upcoming architectural framework for the design of complete distributed industrial automation systems and their reusable components. This paper presents a multi-agent distributed control approach for a baggage handling system using IEC 61499 Functional Blocks. In particular, it focuses on demonstrating a distributed control system that is scalable, reconfigurable and fault tolerant. The design follows the Automation Object approach, which ends up in a functional block representing a single section of conveyor, such that the structure (and consequently the behaviour) of the conveyor network is entirely defined by the interconnection of these blocks within the IEC 61499 design environment. The use of distributed simulation to achieve predictive control is demonstrated as a part of the control system design.