TY - GEN
T1 - A multi-agent architecture for compensating unforeseen failures on field control level
AU - Legat, Christoph
AU - Vogel-Heuser, Birgit
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Technical failures not considered during plant engineering result in a reduced productiveness due to unscheduled system downtimes. Dynamic reconfiguration of field control software offers an alternative in contrast to the traditional way of immediate maintenance stops. In this contribution, a novel agent-based architecture for handling unforeseen failures is proposed. The reconfigurability of the field control software is achieved by implementing real-time agents in an IEC 61131-3 compliant language. The flexibility of the control software the agents rely on is achieved by applying the service-oriented paradigm to the field level control functionality. The realization of the concept on a laboratory plant with standard automation components is described and the advantageousness of dynamic reconfiguration is critically discussed.
AB - Technical failures not considered during plant engineering result in a reduced productiveness due to unscheduled system downtimes. Dynamic reconfiguration of field control software offers an alternative in contrast to the traditional way of immediate maintenance stops. In this contribution, a novel agent-based architecture for handling unforeseen failures is proposed. The reconfigurability of the field control software is achieved by implementing real-time agents in an IEC 61131-3 compliant language. The flexibility of the control software the agents rely on is achieved by applying the service-oriented paradigm to the field level control functionality. The realization of the concept on a laboratory plant with standard automation components is described and the advantageousness of dynamic reconfiguration is critically discussed.
KW - Agent-based Systems
KW - Discrete Field Level Control Software
KW - Dynamic Reconfiguration
KW - Fault-tolerant System
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84958549913
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-04735-5_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-04735-5_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84958549913
SN - 9783319047348
T3 - Studies in Computational Intelligence
SP - 195
EP - 208
BT - Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing and Robotics
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -