{"title":"Proposal of Risk Communications Supporting Method in Multiplex Risk Communicator","authors":"H. Yajima, S. Matsumoto, R. Sasaki","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355352","url":null,"abstract":"According to development of information technology, a variety of social risks have emerged and complex social problems have happened. To cope with this situation, risk communication is useful. In risk communication, negotiation between participants and decision maker is performed and solution for risks is made. Now we have been developing Multiplex Risk Communicator (MRC) to solve social risk problems and social negotiation problems. In this paper, we propose negotiation subsystem that decides optimal solution among participant and decision maker using non-discrimination curve and utility theory. The effectiveness of proposed method is made clear using an example","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126522805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Service-Oriented IEC 61499 compliant Engineering Support Environment","authors":"K. Thramboulidis, G. Koumoutsos, G. Doukas","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355462","url":null,"abstract":"The IEC 61499 standard introduces the function block (FB) model to support the development of open, interoperable, distributed control applications (DCAs). Currently available engineering support systems (ESSs) as well as those under development adopt traditional architectural styles and do not cover the whole requirements of the development process of FB-based DCAs. However, the major drawback of traditional ESSs is that of extensibility. This problem can be addressed by providing a public domain framework that can be easily extended. In this paper an approach that promotes the idea of service-oriented computing in the control and automation domain, is described. A service-oriented architectural framework is proposed to provide the infrastructure for the exploitation of service-oriented computing in the development process of factory automation systems. Features required in the development process will be implemented as services and published in the public domain. These services can be used on demand by control engineers to construct their projects' specific engineering support environments.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129659820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three Layered Business Process Architecture for Workflow Cooperation","authors":"R. Saga, Naoto Okada, H. Tsuji","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355205","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes architecture for workflow cooperation among organizations. To design system architecture, business processes are classified and systematized. The proposed architecture consists of three components: request message converter, business process auto-generator and business process manager. Using WordNet for pair of words, the first component converts a message to a trigger for the second component. Then according to MIT Process Handbook for business process repository, the second component automatically generates a business process instance in an operating order. Finally, referring to case base, the third component decides and manages proper schedule and transactors for the instance from case-base. In an experiment, this paper also validates the proposed architecture and discusses its feasibility.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128011787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adding Synchronous Scheduling to CORBA-RT","authors":"I. Calvo, L. Almeida","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355364","url":null,"abstract":"CORBA, in particular the real-time specification, has proven to be a reliable and mature technology that has been successfully used in a great number of industrial distributed computing applications. However, its current version does not provide specific mechanisms to support the deployment of synchronous activities in a flexible way. This fact may complicate the application of this technology to certain applications where synchronous behaviour is expected. Therefore, this paper presents a new service, built over CORBA-RT, that allows the synchronization of different activities of a distributed system in an easy way. The paper also explains how this service can be used to optimize, in general, resource utilization in a distributed system","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121272654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Heuristics-based Advanced Planning and Scheduling System with Bottleneck Scheduling Algorithm","authors":"T. Chua, F. Y. Wang, T. Cai, X. Yin","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355437","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a heuristics-based advanced planning and scheduling (APS) system with bottleneck scheduling algorithm. It has been designed to solve production scheduling problems in discrete manufacturing industry. The proposed APS system can be configured to be deployed in different production environments, including make-to-stock, make-to-order, bottleneck-driven shop floor, through its forward, backward and bottleneck scheduling algorithms. It allows users to specify heuristic rules at each operation based on the scheduling policy of the operation. The embedded scheduling techniques facilitates the generation of feasible and practical schedule to achieve a fine balance among the conflicting production goals of maximizing resource utilization, minimizing work-in-process (WIP), and reduction of cycle time. In addition, the system can be easily reconfigured to address them various requirements imposed by the physical and operational constraints of the production environment. The APS system deploys two layers of heuristic algorithms intertwined within the scheduling engine. The two layers of heuristic algorithms are job prioritization (JP) rules and machine selection (MS) rules. JP heuristics rules are designed to prioritize orders at each operation, while machine selection (MS) algorithm selects the best-fit machines and other optional resources to generate the dispatching list. The modular and configurable approach adopted in the design and development of the scheduling engine allows the reconfiguration of basic core JP and MS modules for different industry-specific requirements. The proposed APS system has been successfully implemented to fulfil the daily production scheduling needs of a few semiconductor backend assembly companies.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116357238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Simulation Case Study of the new IEEE 802.11e HCCA mechanism in Industrial Wireless Networks","authors":"H. Trsek, J. Jasperneite, S.P. Karanam","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355189","url":null,"abstract":"The advantages of using IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area networks (WLAN) in industrial automation applications are substantial and comprise a higher flexibility, greater mobility and reduced maintenance costs. However, the currently used medium access mechanism makes WLANs non-deterministic and hence not suitable for industrial real-time traffic. The new amendment IEEE 802.11e introduces the HCF controlled channel access (HCCA) for parameterized QoS and the enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) for prioritized QoS. This paper evaluates the performance of the HCCA in an industrial automation network with real-time requirements by means of a simulation case study with the network simulator OPNET and compares the results with the EDCA in terms of latency in various scenarios.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128746064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An IEC61499 Execution Environment for an aJile-based Field Device","authors":"K. Thramboulidis, N. Papakonstantinou","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355247","url":null,"abstract":"The IEC61499 standard is the first step towards the development of the next generation agile manufacturing systems where distribution, interoperability and re-configuration are between the most important requirements. Development environments that will demonstrate the applicability of this standard in industrial environments are still missing. In this paper an approach that allows the execution of IEC61499 based control applications on an industrial field device is presented. This approach allows the control engineer to design the control application in terms of function block network diagrams, and subsequently exploit the model-driven development paradigm to run the control application on a single-chip real-time Java microcontroller especially designed for real-time embedded applications.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128789883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating Manufacturing Equipments Using a Shop Floor Control System","authors":"C. D'Onofrio, M. Bruccoleri, U. Commare","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355378","url":null,"abstract":"A generic manufacturing system must interact with an environment characterized by a strong competition and by continuous technological changes. For this reason there is the necessity to make the system easily and economically modifiable in its hardware and software configuration. One of the main problems in making a manufacturing system re-configurable concerns its control system which has to be accordingly scalable and object oriented. This paper presents a methodology for making a manufacturing control system actually reconfigurable and adaptable to hardware changes in the manufacturing systems components. In particular, a PC-based shop-floor control system has been realized. Such system allows easy integration of new robotic systems in a generic manufacturing system","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121569128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Filip, O. Proștean, I. Szeidert, C. Vașar, G. Proștean
{"title":"Self-tuning Control Using External Integrator Loop for a Synchronous Generator Excitation System","authors":"I. Filip, O. Proștean, I. Szeidert, C. Vașar, G. Proștean","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355251","url":null,"abstract":"An adaptive self-tuning control solution is exposed in this paper. The control strategy is to minimize a cost function, which incorporates fluctuations of input, output and set point with the system-identified parameters. The designed control strategy proposes to remove the internal integrator component from the adaptive control law (which is inappropriate for some process due to control system instability) and using an external integrator loop, parallel connected with the self-tuning controller.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131040822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Álvarez, P. Fernández, S. M. Diaz, J. C. Rico, C. Suarez
{"title":"Accessibility Analysis for Automatic Inspection Using Bounding Volume Hierarchies","authors":"B. Álvarez, P. Fernández, S. M. Diaz, J. C. Rico, C. Suarez","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355374","url":null,"abstract":"The accessibility analysis presented in this paper is based on part discretization and the application of space partitioning techniques (kd-tree) in order to reduce the number of intersection tests between probe and part. The discretization of the part in a set of triangles (STL model) allows the developed algorithms to be applied to whatever part or environment obstacle, independently of their geometry. A recursive ray traversal algorithm has been used in order to speed up the traversal of the hierarchical structure of the kd-tree and to calculate exclusively the intersection of each probe orientation with those part triangles that potentially can interfere with it. In a further step of the analysis, the real geometry of the probe has been considered. For this, a simplified model has been developed for each probe component (column, head, touch probe, stylus and tip) using different basic geometrical shapes. Different models for each probe component have been tested to calculate their intersection with the part, and several algorithms have been implemented to accelerate the computation. Finally, collision-free probe orientations are clustered for minimizing the orientation changes during the inspection process. Furthermore, the applied algorithm allows for determining different valid combinations of clusters.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"464 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131954457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}