Information access and control operations in multi-agent system based process automation

Authors:
Ilkka Seilonen;Teppo Pirttioja;Antti Pakonen;Pekka Appelqvist;Aarne Halme;Kari Koskinen
Affiliations:
Computer and Information Systems in Automation, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland;Automation Technology Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland;VTT Industrial Systems, Finland;Automation Technology Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland;Automation Technology Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland;Computer and Information Systems in Automation, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Venue:
HoloMAS'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

An approach to combine information access and control operations in a process automation system extended with multi-agent system technology is presented in this paper. According to this approach a multi-agent system supervises an ordinary process automation system by performing higher-level information access and control operations. The information access operations are aimed for actively combining information from different sources depending on the monitoring tasks of the users. The control operations of the multi-agent system are supervisory control tasks performed either in sequential or iterative fashion. The expected benefit of the multi-agent system is enhanced adaptability of the automation system and increased situation awareness of its users. The architecture of the multi-agent system is based on the BDI agent model and utilization of so-called ontologies. An approach for engineering applications for this kind of a multi-agent system is also discussed. The approach is demonstrated with results from experiments performed with industrial test data and a laboratory test process.