Distributed control patterns for intelligent mechatronic systems

Sorouri, Majid; Patil, Sandeep; Vyatkin, Valeriy

doi:10.1109/indin.2012.6301149

Cited by 24 publications

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“…There has been much work in the past years to increase software quality and re-usability of control software, e.g., (Sünder et al, 2006;Eckert et al, 2012;Sorouri et al, 2012;Zoitl and Prähofer, 2012). The approaches mainly try to develop design patterns and improve the development of control software to achieve this.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Product-Driven Generation of Action Sequences for Adaptable Manufacturing Systems

2015

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In times of fast changing markets and short product life-cycles manufacturing systems have to be adaptable and able to support a variety in products and product volumes. Production has to be product-driven and switching between different products should be possible with little manual intervention. We suggest an action sequence generation approach that tailors the control programs of resources to product needs. The approach requires a model of the available resources with their capabilities and internal material flow, the material flow between resources as well as a product description. An action sequence can then be generated out of these models and later translated into an executable action sequence. The action sequence can be automatically downloaded and executed on a resource. The approach is evaluated on an educational production system with industrial components.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Product-Driven Generation of Action Sequences for Adaptable Manufacturing Systems

2015

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“…However, it is essential for every two or more collaborating O-MIRAs to ensure that both their physical and software components match with each other. For every two communicating MIRAs, their level of authority in decision-making is defined in two communication patterns: Peer to Peer and Master-Slave [13]. These negotiation methods can be either set manually or determined through reasoning, but their correctness needs to be formally verified as was reported in [14].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…master-slave and peer to peer) for their communication has been considered and a uniform FB interface (Fig. 4) is proposed in [13] to facilitate derivation of LLC code from the STEP method while their ultimate functionalities are verified formally prior to operation [14].…”

Section: ) Llc: Iec 61499 Fb For Distributed Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

MIRA: Enabler of mass customization through agent-based development of intelligent manufacturing systems

Sorouri

Vyatkin

Salčić

2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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This research proposes an innovative agent-based design method known as "MIRA" (Modular, Intelligent and Real-time Agent) to represent products as well as mechatronic components in manufacturing systems. The new agent exploits semantic knowledge representation of its capabilities, tasks and surroundings, and upon which performs rule-based reasoning leading to generation of the IEC 61499 Function Blocks for real time and distributed control of production systems. This approach facilitates product's mass customization through development of intelligent mechatronic systems. Furthermore, the MIRA approach is exemplified in a food production case study.

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“…It takes advantage of the IEC 61499 distributed control architecture and the IEEE 1588 precision time protocol (PTP) [19]. The proposed approach is strongly motivated by the industrial trend of developing the intelligent mechatronic component (IMC) concept [20]- [22], which can include other IMCs in complex hierarchical assemblies. Some control actions in IMCs are purely reactive (i.e., event-driven) while others constitute sequences of actions that are best described by time-schedules.…”

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confidence: 99%