The design of distributed transport systems as a major standard interface in computer integrated manufacturing

Computational tasks in robotics and factory automation

“…Such a model is called a 'Reference Model' [3,4,8]. It describes the organization of an MPCS in terms of its structure and tasks.…”

“…Nevertheless, some of their general conclusions have been applied to the development of the Reference Model that is described in this paper. References [1,3,12,17,28,33,37,39,56] describe MPCSs, but only parts of it. They focus on tasks such as production planning, or transport systems, or on robot control, or on sensing.…”

“…Prod- 3 We have hence provided an example in which a strategy to design a complex system with an uncertain application resuits in a system with a hierarchical organization. There seems to be an interesting analogy with the discussion in [52] that natural systems with a hierarchical organization have a far better chance to survive unpredictable events as destructive impacts during evolution.…”

“…realizing the behavior of the MPCS as a whole [3]. We will now discuss some techniques that can support the development of such meaningful specifications of the observable behavior.…”