Open-architecture system based on a reconfigurable hardware-software multi-agent platform for CNC machines

  • Authors:

  • Luis Morales-Velazquez;Rene de Jesus Romero-Troncoso;Roque Alfredo Osornio-Rios;Gilberto Herrera-Ruiz;Eduardo Cabal-Yepez

  • Affiliations:

  • Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Cerro de las Campanas s/n, 76010 Queretaro, Qro., Mexico;Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Cerro de las Campanas s/n, 76010 Queretaro, Qro., Mexico and Division de Ingenieria - Salamanca, Universidad de Guanajuato, Carr. Salaman ...;Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Cerro de las Campanas s/n, 76010 Queretaro, Qro., Mexico;Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Cerro de las Campanas s/n, 76010 Queretaro, Qro., Mexico;Division de Ingenieria - Salamanca, Universidad de Guanajuato, Carr. Salamanca - Valle de Santiago km 3.5+1.8 Com. de Palo Blanco, 36700 Salamanca, Gto., Mexico

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

New generation of manufacturing systems endows their intelligence and reconfigurability to the computerized numerical controller (CNC) machines. This paper presents an open-architecture platform based on multi-agent hardware-software units, by developing a novel Multi-Agent Distributed CONtroller (MADCON) system. This system intends to fulfill the requirements of reconfigurability for the next generation of intelligent machines. The design of intelligent drives for this system follows a hardware-software co-design approach using a simple and intuitive structure. The hardware units of the proposed system integrate control and monitoring functions providing an FPGA-based open architecture for reconfigurable applications. On the other hand, software components were developed utilizing the XML structure for system description files, gathering features like a flowchart descriptive language and a graphic user-interface. MADCON was applied to a retrofitted to CNC lathe for control and monitoring in order to validate the proposed architecture towards the development of new generation intelligent manufacturing systems.