Gl. Kovacs et J. Nacsa, SOME COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS OF KB-CONTROLLED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, Engineering applications of artificial intelligence, 10(2), 1997, pp. 225-230
Knowledge-based or intelligent control of flexible manufacturing syste
ms (FMS) involves the continuous or frequent observation and evaluatio
n of the status and condition of the system performance, decision-maki
ng based both on the evaluation results and on pre-defined knowledge,
and then system operation according to these decisions. In the case of
normal, scheduled operation, there is no need for either intelligence
or interactions to modify the operation. The procedure given above ma
y, however help if any kind of disturbance or irregularity happens, as
is rather common in the case of highly sophisticated, complex systems
. This paper deals with control and communication problems in flexible
manufacturing systems using programs based on a real-time expert-syst
em environment, taking into consideration the requirement for openness
in up-to-date systems. Two robot applications will be discussed as de
monstrations. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.