Realizing holonic control with function blocks

Authors:
Lihui Wang;Robert W. Brennan;Sivaram Balasubramanian;Douglas H. Norrie
Affiliations:
Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Canada, 800 Collip Circle London, Ontario, Canada N6G 4X8. E-mail: Lihui.Wang@nrc.ca;Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4. Tel.: +1 403 220 5787/ Fax: +1 403 282 8406/ E-mail: {b ...;Rockwell Automation, 24800 Tungsten Road, Cleveland, OH 44117, USA. E-mail: Sbalasubramanian@ra.rockwell.com;Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4. Tel.: +1 403 220 5787/ Fax: +1 403 282 8406/ E-mail: {b ...
Venue:
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Future manufacturing systems will be required to be agile, flexible and fault-tolerant. Development of these next-generation systems will not only require new approaches, but also new ways of thinking about these systems. This paper describes a real-time control architecture for distributed intelligent control that combines the emerging IEC-1499 standard for distributed control with the holonic control paradigm. The focus of the paper is on a generic control system designer for the lower process/machine control layer of this real-time control architecture. This paper outlines related research into control system architecture using multi-agent negotiation and cooperation, then describes the intelligent control function design interface and automatic control code generation.