(Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University, 2016) Masendeke, D. M.; Basson, A. H.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This paper presents a communication approach for a holonic controller developed in LabVIEW.
The controller is aimed at station that forms part of a reconfigurable assembly cell. The objective of
the research was to evaluate the extent to which LabVIEW facilitates reconfigurability in this
context. The holons were implemented by using LabVIEW’s producer/consumer (to achieve
asynchronous inter- and intra-holon communication) and state machine architectures. The paper
discusses some implementation considerations. The paper shows that LabVIEW offers some
attractive facilities for lower levels of reconfigurable control systems.