Abstract
To make control entities of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) provided with characteristics of autonomy, cooperation, robustness, modularization, reconfiguration, maintainability, etc., we present in this paper a design method of autonomous and cooperative FMS control systems based on the latest agent standards of the foundation intelligent physical agent (FIPA). On the basis of discussing the concepts of the FIPA agent, the Java agent development framework (JADE) agent platform and FIPA specifications, the design method of FMS control systems is presented. Then the control software architecture and basic structure of a generic FIPA agent are designed. Finally, to demonstrate and validate the proposed design method, the prototyping FIPA agents have been implemented in MS 2000 Server/Professional Operating System, JADE and Java 6.0 Developer environments.
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