Mechatronic Swarm and its Virtual Commissioning

Abstract

This paper presents a swarm-based architecture for the composition of mechatronic systems from smart components complemented by a Virtual Commissioning (VC) environment. The architecture is based on the IEC 61499 standard. The proposed solution enables plug-and-play composition of the system which is ready to operate ”out of the box” right after it was composed without extra programming.