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AssigneeRockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
InventorsFrancisco Paul Maturana, Sivaram Balasubramanian, Raymond John Staron, Pavel Tichy, Petr Slechta
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In an autonomous cooperative control system a job description of job steps is drafted in a scripting language and compared to corresponding machine steps associated with each independently controlled machine also drafted in the same scripting language for simple comparison and generation of sub-bids for further bidding. The machine steps generated for each ACU provides a vocabulary for the job description language which may be further simplified by hiding lower level machine steps in the ACUs to be activated only upon a matching with a job step. The ACUs may select between connected and unconnected messaging based on historical communication patterns to reduce network traffic.
A method of operating a control system to implement, using a plurality of machines, a job described by a job description, where each machine is associated with an autonomous cooperative unit (ACU) responding to the job description and/or bids and counterbids from other ACUs so as to coordinate the operation of the machines to perform the job, the method comprising the steps of:
The method of claim 7 wherein machine steps maybe associated with additional job steps and further including step (d) for a given ACU at which at least one job step matches a machine step associated with additional job steps, further transmitting from the given ACU to other ACUs, the job description with the matching job step removed and the addition job steps added.
In a control system implementing on a plurality of machines a job described by a job description, where each machine is associated with an autonomous cooperative unit (ACU) responding to the job description and/or bids and counterbids from other ACUs so as to coordinate the operation of the machine to perform the job, the improvement comprising:
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