IDA Technical Reports: abstract

Loborg, P. and Törne, A. (1991). A Hybrid Language for the Control of Multimachine Environments. Technical Report LiTH-IDA-R-91-09, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden. Accepted to the 4th Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Hawaii, June 2-5, 1991. (bibtex),

Abstract: We report here on the development of a language and editor for use by operators and production engineers to instruct machine environments (manufacturing cells), as part of the ARAMIS-project. The language design is focused on making the computer transparent in the task of programming a manufacturing cell, thus making it easier for nonprogrammers to instruct the cell. The language is graphical, and is a hybrid between a traditional and a rule-based language. The conflict resolution problem is dealt with by defining possible amalgamations of rules, a process supported by presentational views in the editor.