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