US 2026/0299562 A1Published application

Method and Arrangement for Controlling an Industrial Automation Arrangement via Dynamically Orchestrated Software Agents

AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft

InventorsNathalie SCHNELZER, Armin HADZALIC, Matthias HERBORT

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Abstract

A method and to an arrangement for controlling an industrial automation arrangement, wherein during a first step, a request of a user is transmitted to a local client component of an orchestrator, in a second step, the request is supplemented with items of context information and with items of control information and transmitted to a server component of the orchestrator, in a third step, at least one AI agent is selected and retrieved for generating at least some controller commands required for fulfilling the request, where the respectively retrieved AI Agent processes the request and transmits a response with the controller commands back to the server component, in a fourth step, controller commands generated by the AI agent are transmitted to the client component, and in a fifth step, an adapter is supplied with the controller commands, and the automation arrangement is controlled via the adapter and a control facility.

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Dependent claims

A method for controlling an industrial automation arrangement, via at least one software agent based on artificial intelligence, utilizing a natural-language request input by a user, controller commands are generated for at least one industrial control facility of the automation arrangement and are utilized by the control facility for controlling the automation arrangement, and at least one adapter for exchanging the controller commands between the AI agent and the control facility being associated with the control facility (SE), the method comprising:

transmitting, in a first step, via an assistance system based on the artificial intelligence, the request of the user to a local client component of an orchestrator;
supplementing, in a second step, via the local client component, the request with items of context information about the automation arrangement and with items of control information about the at least one local adapter of the control facility and transmitting the supplemented request to a server component of the orchestrator;
selecting and retrieving, in a third step, via the server component, utilizing the supplemented request, at least one of the AI agents for generating at least some of the controller commands required for fulfilling the request, a respectively retrieved AI agent processing the request and transmitting a response with the controller commands back to the server component;
transmitting, in a fourth step, via the server component, the controller commands generated by the at least one AI agent to the client component;
and
supplying, in a fifth step, via the client component, utilizing items of context information and items of control information, at least one adapter with the controller commands and controlling the automation arrangement via the at least one adapter and the at least one control facility.

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An arrangement for controlling an industrial automation arrangement, at least one software Agent based on artificial intelligence, utilizing a natural-language request input by a user, being configured to generate controller commands for at least one industrial control facility of the automation arrangement, the control facility being configured to control the automation arrangement, and at least one adapter for exchanging the controller commands between the at least one software agent and the control facility being associated with the control facility, the arrangement comprising:

an assistance system based on artificial intelligence for transmitting the request of the user to a local client component of an orchestrator;
wherein the client component supplements the request with items of context information about the automation arrangement and with items of control information about the at least one local adapter of the control facility and transmits the supplemented request to a server component of the orchestrator,
wherein the server component is configured to, utilizing the supplemented request, select and retrieve at least agent of the at least one software Agent for generating at least some of the controller commands required for fulfilling the request;
wherein the at least one software Agent is configured to process the request and generate and transmit a response with the controller commands back to the server component;
wherein the server component is further configured to transmit the controller commands generated by the at least one software Agent to the client component ;
and
wherein the client component is configured to, utilizing the items of context information and the items of control information, transmit the controller commands to the at least one local adapter and to control the automation arrangement via the at least one local adapter and the at least one control facility.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.