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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2002
Francisco Paul Maturana, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Sivaram Balasubramanian, Solon, OH (US);
Raymond John Staron, Richmond Heights, OH (US);
Pavel Tichy, Nymburk, CZ;
Petr Slechta, Ceska Lipa, CZ;
Francisco Paul Maturana, Twinsburg, OH (US);
Sivaram Balasubramanian, Solon, OH (US);
Raymond John Staron, Richmond Heights, OH (US);
Pavel Tichy, Nymburk, CZ;
Petr Slechta, Ceska Lipa, CZ;
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
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.