Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers (한국공작기계학회논문집)

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Agent Application for E-Beam Manufacturing System

전자빔 가공기에 대한 에이전트 응용

  • 임선종 (한국기계연구원 지능기계연구센터) ;
  • 이찬홍 (한국기계연구원 지능기계연구센터) ;
  • 송준엽 (한국기계연구원 지능기계연구센터)
  • Published : 2007.04.15
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Abstract

An agent is an abstract unit for problem solving in the field of distributed artificial intelligence, and an agent-based system is designed and implemented based on the definition of agent as its central concept. Agent modeling is advantageous to abstraction, disintegration and structuring for describing complex system, so its application is increased in various areas including air traffic control, power transmission, e-commerce and medicine. There is no agreed definition of agent but agents have common points as follows: autonomy, reactivity, pro-activeness and cooperation. An agent-oriented modeling is an approach of a concept different form existing object-oriented modeling. This study proposed the agent application for E-Beam manufacturing system. To evaluate the performance of the proposed process design, we used the JADE library. The JADE toolkit provides a FIPA-compliant agent platform and a package to develp Java agents. It provides a basic set of functionalities that are regarded as essential for an autonomous agent architecture.

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