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Technical failures not considered during plant engineering result in a reduced productiveness due to unscheduled system downtimes. Dynamic reconfiguration of field control software offers an alternative in contrast to the traditional way of immediate maintenance stops. In this contribution, a novel agent-based architecture for handling unforeseen failures is proposed. The reconfigurability of the field control software is achieved by implementing real-time agents in an IEC 61131-3 compliant language. The flexibility of the control software the agents rely on is achieved by applying the service-oriented paradigm to the field level control functionality. The realization of the concept on a laboratory plant with standard automation components is described and the advantageousness of dynamic reconfiguration is critically discussed.
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Legat, C., Vogel-Heuser, B. (2014). A Multi-Agent Architecture for Compensating Unforeseen Failures on Field Control Level. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Thomas, A. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing and Robotics. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 544. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04735-5_13
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