Intelligent agent-enabled distributed numerical control simulation system

NC simulation is an important component of virtual manufacturing, which enables testing, debugging and optimizing of NC programs in advance. However, development of Web-based distributed NC machining system is facing difficulties of intelligent control supporting real-time rendering over Web and the remote simulation of cutting process. First, this paper addresses the multi-agents framework, which employs VRML to model the models of cutter and work piece, and Java to control the process of milling simulation, taking the EAI as the bridge. Second, the novel programming methodologies for the realization of 3 key majority agents, namely, time the interpolation agent, NC codes flow listener agent, and the dynamical removal simulation agent, are detailed represented.