Research And Development Of Embedded Agent For Manufacturing Equipment

In order to adapt to the global competition and rapid market responsiveness, the manufacturing system must have the ability of flexibility, intelligence and reconfigurability. The distributed networked system making use of the technology of Agent in the area of AI is one of the realization ways. In this system, every equipment or manufacturing cell equips with an agent, which servers as an outside representative of them to realize the communication between them through the network.This paper researches the bottom equipment of the Agent-based system, equipped them with the agent to realized the communication between each other. The agent composites of the hardware and software, and uses microcontroller ARM as the hardware core and adoptμC/OS-II as the operating system. What is more, in order to meet the need of network communication, the TCP/IP protocol stack is extended into the OS. The main task of the realization agent in the embedded platform is to programming the program to realize the function of sharing the task and resources. In order to inquiring the status of equipment and setting the parameters easily, the HTTP server is developed in the embedded system. The client and server software is also developed to fulfill the task of information communication in the embedded system and controller computer separately. The system realized based on the embedded agents has tested and the result of it proved that the embedded agent accomplished the prospected functions.