A Model for the Execution of Task Level Specifications
for Intelligent and Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Peter Loborg, Per Holmbom*, Martin Sköld and Anders Törne
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
*Dept. of Physics and Measurement Technology
Linköping University, Sweden
ABSTRACT
We introduce here a software architecture for the control of a sensor
based manufacturing system consisting of a number of machines and
peripheral equipment. The architecture divides the programming effort
into two levels, task level programming and control level programming.
The task level programming is based on the programming of a discrete
model of the world, the World Model (WM). The WM provides a symbolic
representation of the world state and isolates the task programs from
the control level algorithms. Programming the control level amounts to
modelling the manufacturing equipment as components with `behaviour'
using object oriented techniques. Each component specifies how it should
react to changes in the WM, i.e. selection and specification of the
control algorithms to be executed. Programming at both levels can be
done incrementally and control algorithms may be changed dynamically in
the real-time kernel.
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