Towards a unified approach to the design of knowledge based agile manufacturing systems: Part II - an application
Murat Uzam, Anthony H. Jones · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1996
To date there are no general techniques available to design Knowledge Based Discrete Event Control Systems. In the first part of this paper, a new technique is proposed which solves the problem. The generality of the technique means that the method can be applied to any complex (multi-component) Discrete Event Control problem and can easily accommodate diagnostics and reconfiguration. The technique involves firstly, defining the complex Discrete Event Control system as a colored Petri net controller and then converting the colored Petri net controller into a colored Token Passing Logic controller via Token Passing Logic (TPL) technique and finally, representing the colored Token Passing Logic controller as rules within a control knowledge base for use within a concurrent inference engine. In this paper the technique is described in detail by considering the application of the TPL to a multi-component assembly manufacturing system.