Title :
An approach towards the development life-cycle of agent-based production control applications
Author :
Leitão, Paulo ; Colombo, Armando W.
Author_Institution :
Polytech. Inst. of Braganca
Abstract :
This paper discusses a new approach to the development life-cycle of agent-based production control applications, from the design to the operation, based in a catalogue of high-level Petri nets. The high-level Petri net-based approach facilitates the conception, definition and formal specification of an "encapsulation process" in industrial production systems. The catalogue includes elements for the identification of manufacturing components, the development of agent-based control units, the formal validation of the models and the formal specification of complete collaborative automation scenarios
Keywords :
Petri nets; formal specification; formal verification; intelligent control; intelligent manufacturing systems; production control; software agents; agent-based production control application development life-cycle; collaborative automation scenario; formal specification; formal validation; high-level Petri net-based approach; industrial production system; manufacturing component identification; Electrical equipment industry; Encapsulation; Formal specifications; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing industries; New products catalog; Petri nets; Production control; Production systems; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2005. ETFA 2005. 10th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Catania
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9401-1
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.2005.1612582
