FIPA-ACL based agent communications in plant automation

Author

Feng, Qibin ; Lu, Guoqiang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Meas. & Control Technol., Hefei Univ. of Technol., China

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

16-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

74

Abstract

Intelligent software agent technology is used in plant automation based on distributed system (PABADIS) project to distribute MES functions throughput the automation system and ERP. Communications between PABADIS agents are based on method invocation. The client agent creates the proxy object of server agent and invokes service provided by server agent locally. As a reason that agent communication language is assumed to be able to best handle the inter-agent communication, we try to use agent communication language to implement communications between PABADIS agents. In order to comply with the finished part of project in which Grasshopper is used as agent developing platform, FIPA ACL is adopted. In this paper, we analyze the finished PABADIS communications, present some PABADIS special ACL messages, and implement some communications in FIPA ACL supported by Grasshopper.

Keywords

client-server systems; enterprise resource planning; factory automation; industrial plants; manufacturing systems; software agents; Grasshopper agent platform; agent communication language; agent developing platform; client agent; distributed system; enterprise resource management; intelligent software agent technology; interagent communication; manufacturing execution systems; plant automation system; production planning; server agent; Automatic control; Communication system control; Control systems; Enterprise resource planning; Intelligent agent; Intelligent networks; Manufacturing automation; Production; Software agents; Software measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ETFA '03. IEEE Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7937-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2003.1248672

Filename

1248672