| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 資訊工程學系研究所 === 86 === This thesis proposes a multi-agent based control system
architecture for flexible
manufacturing system. A systematic approach is also presented
to building agents
and to configuring the control kernel. First of all, based on
the analysis on and modeling
of a flexible manufacturing system, a generic agent prototype is
introduced, which is capable of communicating with the control
kernel and the local device
controller. Next, the control kernel architecture is proposed,
which provides a platform to
integrate distributed agents and to serve the requests from the
upper layer scheduler.
To resolve the typical agent(resource) allocation problem, an
intelligent brokering strategy
has been developed for running in the control kernel with an
aim at maximizing the throughputs.
Due to the request transparency provided by the control kernel,
the complexity of the scheduler
can be drastically reduced to meet the contraints for real-time
response. Furthermore, the
system can continue working without interruption when an agent
is dynamically added to or removed
from the system. The present work has been applied to an
experimental robotized flexible assembly
system in the Intelligent Robotics and Automation Laboratory at
National Taiwan University.
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