Title :
Envisioning an Agent-OS for Autonomous Cooperative Systems
Author :
Maturana, Francisco P. ; Tichy, P. ; Vrba, Pavel
Author_Institution :
Rockwell Autom., Mayfield Hts.
Abstract :
The autonomous cooperative system environment was built as a low priority control task inside programmable logical controllers. It added the functionality of an agent-based operating system. The ACS kernel evolved in this manner for a long time almost independent of the controller operating system. Although ACS has been successfully deployed on commercial controllers, new releases of Logix will cause complications in the integration of the software and adoption of future functionality. There is necessity to evolve ACS to be seamless integrated with the controllers. This new challenge implies changes to the Logix OS for the creation of the agents. There are critical implications that would radically affect the agent infrastructure. In this document, we discuss the results of the transformation.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; multi-agent systems; operating systems (computers); programmable controllers; ACS kernel; Logix OS; agent-OS; agent-based operating system; autonomous cooperative system environment; controller operating system; programmable logical controllers; Automatic control; Automation; Buildings; Control systems; Cooperative systems; Hardware; Intelligent agent; Operating systems; Process control; Production;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2006. SMC '06. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0099-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0100-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2006.384471
