Negotiation Scenarios between Autonomous Robot Cells in Manufacturing Automation: A Case Study

Today's industrial manufacturing systems have to face the problem of fast changes in demand of products and the product spectrum. One solution for getting a more flexible structure of production lines is the concept of autonomous and cooperative production units, which is taken from the idea of holonic manufacturing systems [1]. In such systems productions requests are negotiated between production units

Implementing Function Block Adapters

Function Block Adapters (FBAs) are new modeling elements, responsible for the connection of UML capsules and function blocks of the IEC 61131-3 standard. FBAs contain an interface..

A Profile for Integrating Function Blocks into the Unified Modeling Language

In this paper we introduce a new profile for Function Block Adapters (FBAs), which are responsible for the connection of Unified Modeling Language (UML) ports and function blocks of non-UML languages. FBAs provide interfaces to ports, to function blocks, and a description of the mapping between these interfaces. Both UML and function block developers can use a special easy-to-use FBA description language to express these interface mappings in a concise manner. Our FBA language offers the important advantage of highlevel descriptions during early phases of the UML development process. This paper proposes a mapping of FBA-semantics to standard UML-semantics. The application of FBAs to function block oriented languages like IEC 61131-3, IEC 61499, or Matlab/Simulink^TM is discussed by using the approach of the Model Driven Architecture

R.: A profile for integrating function blocks into the unified modeling language. Software Tools for Technology Transfer (2003) Talk at Specification and Validation of UML Models for Real Time Embedded Systems

Abstract. In this paper we introduce a new profile for Function Block Adapters (FBAs), which are responsible for the connection of Unified Modeling Language (UML) ports and function blocks of non-UML languages. FBAs provide interfaces to ports, to function blocks, and a description of the mapping between these interfaces. Both UML and function block developers can use a special easy-to-use FBA description language to express these interface mappings in a concise manner. Our FBA language offers the important advantage of highlevel descriptions during early phases of the UML development process. This paper proposes a mapping of FBA-semantics to standard UML-semantics. The application of FBAs to function block oriented languages like IEC 61131-3, IEC 61499, or Matlab/Simulink ™ is discussed by using the approach of the Model Driven Architecture.