DocumentCode :
2720242
Title :
Reactive and deliberative control and cooperation in multi-agent system based process automation
Author :
Seilonen, Ilkka ; Koskinen, Kari ; Pirttioja, Teppo ; Appelqvist, Pekka ; Halme, Aarne
Author_Institution :
Inf. & Comput. Syst. in Autom., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Espoo, Finland
fYear :
2005
fDate :
27-30 June 2005
Firstpage :
469
Lastpage :
474
Abstract :
An approach to intelligent process automation based on a society of BDI-agents is presented in this paper. According to this approach a higher-level multi-agent systems based automation layer supervises an ordinary process automation system. The purpose of the agent layer is to monitor the operation of the lower-level automation system and semi-autonomously reconfigure its control logic when needed. The agent layer operates as a multi-agent system consisting of BDI-agents, which cooperatively create and run reconfiguration sequences on the ordinary automation system in order to adapt its control logic to various situations. The adaptation process may take place both in reactive and deliberative fashion. In this way the approach aims to increase the flexibility and responsiveness properties of the automation system. The approach is demonstrated with a laboratory test process where process startup and fault recovery experiments have been performed. Results from the experiments are described.
Keywords :
automation; multi-agent systems; software agents; BDI-agent; adaptation process; control logic; fault recovery; lower-level automation system; multi-agent system; process automation; Automatic control; Automation; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Delay; Laboratories; Multiagent systems; Performance evaluation; Reconfigurable logic; Testing; BDI-model; control; cooperation; multi-agent system; process control;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 2005. CIRA 2005. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9355-4
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CIRA.2005.1554321
Filename :
1554321
Link To Document :
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