tim@LINC.CIS.UPENN.EDU.UUCP (04/27/87)
CIS COLLOQUIUM
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
The Semi-Automatic Construction of Large Software Control System
David Bourne, Research Scientist, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon
Large manufacturing software systems have taken many man-years of
effort to build in the past. For example, it is not uncommon for even a
small robotic cell to take several man years of effort to construct. Most
of this effort is spent over-coming the communication incompatibilities
(protocols and programming languages) that exist between machines from
multiple vendors. This talk presents a new AI programming language (CML -
the Cell Management Language) that greatly simplifies these major
difficulties. In addition, control systems for manufacturing will be
logically decomposed into several layers, and for each layer a semi-automatic
software tool will be described for constructing that layer in a new
application.
Thursday, April 30, 1987
3:00 - 4:30
Room 216
The Faculty Lounge
2:30 - 3:00