Integration of a heterogeneous low level control in a multi-agent system for the manufacturing domain

ETFA 2009 - 2009 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lepuschitz, Wilfried ^a   Vallée, Mathieu ^a   Merdan, Munir ^a   Vrba, Pavel ^b   Resch, Jürgen ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Rockwell Automation sro   (Czech Republic)

^c Ing Punzenberger COPA DATA GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; CONTROL SOFTWARE; CONTROL SUBSYSTEMS; GENERIC INTERFACES; HIGH LEVEL CONTROL; LOW LEVEL CONTROL; MANUFACTURING DOMAINS; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM;

FACTORY AUTOMATION; INTEGRATION; MANUFACTURE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

LEVEL CONTROL;

EID: 77949887662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ETFA.2009.5347061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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