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Multi-agent System for Process Planning in Step-nc Based Manufacturing
Juan Du and Xianguo Yan
Corresponding Author: Juan Du
Submitted: July 20, 2011
Accepted: April 30, 2012
Published: October 15, 2012 |
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In order to realize STEP-NC-oriented computer numerical control machining and achieve optimal
performance in manufacturing, a multi-agent system for process planning in STEP-NC based manufacturing
was designed. By analyzing the characteristic of STEP-NC data model, a manufacturing feature-oriented
process planning method was proposed in this study and the distributed artificial intelligence methods, namely
collaborative multi-agent was employed to accomplish process planning of part. The proposed multi-agent
system consists of three types of autonomous agents, which are global manager agents, planning agents and
manufacturing resource agents, respectively. Process planning can be automatically completed by multiple
agents’ cooperation. Each agent is capable of communicating to each other through improved Knowledge
Query and Manipulation Language (KQML). At last, one test part was designed and simulated to demonstrate
the capabilities of this research in the study.
Key words: Manufacturing feature, multi-agent, process planning, STEP-NC, , ,
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Juan Du and Xianguo Yan, . Multi-agent System for Process Planning in Step-nc Based Manufacturing. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, (20): 3865-3871.
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ISSN (Online): 2040-7467
ISSN (Print): 2040-7459 |
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