Knowledge-based control in manufacturing automation

Abstract

Abstract This paper is an introduction to some current research work into knowledge-based control techniques in manufacturing, highlighting developments which are likely to be applicable in the near future. Examples of such work dealing with the integration of manufacturing facilities and diagnosis and error recovery are described. It also addresses more speculative work requiring more complex knowledge representation methods. The applicability of this work to task level programming of robot manipulators and more general planning tasks in manufacturing automation is discussed.