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                            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