Study On Application Of Multi-Agents Technology In CNC Auto-Programming System

Since the emergence of Multi-Agents technology in 1980's, study on itstheory has made great progress. It provides a new way to analyze, design andrealize the complex system. Manufacturing industry is an important industry inour country. The gap between the manufacturing technology in our country withthat in advanced countries is larger. So it is important to hasten the development ofmanufacturing techology.NC technology is the core of advanced manufacturingtechnology, and CNC auto-programming technology is a key of the application ofthe NC Manufacturing technology. According to the problems existing in CNCauto-programming system, this paper tries using Multi-Agents technology todesign the CNC auto-programming system. The architecture of CNCauto-programming based on MAS is put forward, and the communicationmechanism between Agents in this system and the realization of two main Agentsincluding Human-Computer Interactive (HCI) Agent and CAD interface Agent areemphasized. Blackboard structure is used in this system, and several small andsimple Agents complete the system function. Every agent can be designedindependently, so the complexity of building the system is simplified.As an application of CNC auto-programming system model based on MAS,In this paper we design a WEDM auto-programming system prototype. Thefeasibility of CNC auto-programming system based on MAS is proved by thisprototype, and the result shows that the system has some values in theory andpractice.