A reconfigurable concurrent function block model and its implementation in real-time Java

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Brennan, Robert W.^{a; *} | Zhang, Xiaokun^b | Xu, Yuefei^c | Norrie, Douglas H.^a

Affiliations: [a] Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 | [b] Centre for Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, 1 University Drive, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada T9S 3A3 | [c] Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada, 1500 Montreal Road, Bldg. M-50, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author.

Abstract: This paper focuses on the important holonic manufacturing systems issue of automatic and dynamic adaptability to change at the physical machine level of control. We propose a model to support configuration and reconfiguration of real-time distributed control systems that is built upon recent models for distributed intelligent control and provide an example of its implementation on a real-time Java platform.

DOI: 10.3233/ICA-2002-9306

Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 263-279, 2002