Where to Find Intelligent P&S Capabilities within Europe

1. Where to Find Intelligent P&S Capabilities within Europe Tim Grant Atos Origin Nederland / University of Pretoria, RSA Tim.Grant@atosorigin.com / tgrant@cs.up.ac.za PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

2. Overview • Goal: • To give an overview of the intelligent planning & scheduling capabilities within Europe • Structure: • Introduction • Exploiting PLANET’s achievements • IP&S products & services • Stakeholders • European intelligent P&S capabilities PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

3. Introducing myself • Qualifications: • BSc Aeronautical Engineering, Univ. Bristol, UK • PhD Artificial Intelligence, Univ. Maastricht, NL • Experience: • 1966-87: Royal Air Force officer • UK & Singapore: aircraft maintenance & logistics • 1987-date: Principal Consultant, Atos Origin • NL: Aerospace, defence, motorway traffic control • 2001-date: Professor Extraordinary, Univ. Pretoria • RSA: Advanced ICT in Planning & Control PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

4. Introducing Atos Origin • Atos Origin: • Leading European IT services supplier: • 30000 staff worldwide • 50% Dutch (Origin), 50% French (Atos) • Financially stable • Technical Automation (TA) business unit: • Co-creating next-generation of intelligent, software-intensive systems & products together with our clients • In Utrecht (NL): • Aerospace, Defence, Road & Rail Traffic, Telecoms • In Veldhoven (NL): • Consumer & industrial electronics, Semiconductors, Medical equipment, Document processing PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

5. Introducing University of Pretoria • University of Pretoria (“Tukkies”): • Front-rank South African university • Computer Science: • Java, .NET • Swarm intelligence • Planning & control • My research interests: • Decentralised planning & control • Generation of Standard Operating Procedures • Mixed-initiative, collaborative planning • Dynamic risk management PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

6. FP6 IPLANS PLANSERVE DynaTool I4GMES Etc. ... Exploiting PLANET PLANET I PLANET II Possible ways of exploiting PLANET (PSARI) P&S curriculum & textbook P&S competitions P&S technologies & applications P&S products & services PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

7. IP&S products & services (1) • Tools • Research • Research • COTS • Tools • Research • Tools • Tools • COTS • COTS • Research • Research/Tool • COTS • Research • Products: • Knowledge acquisition: • Knowledge acquisition editor • Automated model extraction • Model conversion • Model visualisation/animation • Domain model analysis • Model evaluation • Model validation & verification • Plan-time: • Plan generation • Scheduling • Plan/schedule visualisation/animation • Plan/schedule evaluation • Plan/schedule validation & verification • Run-time: • Plan/schedule execution • Plan/schedule recognition PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

8. IP&S products & services (2) • Services: • Relating to P&S software: • Selection • Installation • Integration • Tailoring to domain requirements • Relating to domain knowledge: • Acquisition • Modelling/representation • Relating to execution: • Plan/schedule execution • Monitoring & control of plan-based operations • Fault detection isolation & recovery PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

9. Knowledge application = Creating products and/or services System of knowledge creation System of knowledge regulation System of knowledge transfer System of knowledge financing System of knowledge application Stakeholders: innovation (1) Process model for innovation (Kern, 2001): PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

10. Each process starts with its own preparation/planning Researcher Regulator Developer Financier Stakeholders: innovation (2) System of knowledge creation System of knowledge regulation System of knowledge transfer System of knowledge financing PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

11. specification need Requirements Design design Each process starts with its own preparation/planning Manufacture Analyst new system Operations Designer old system Manufacturer Decommission previous experience Ops prep SOPs, trained ops Maintainer SOP author Instructor current state Decommissioner Planning Control plans Planner Controller Stakeholders: product creation PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

12. Stakeholders: scenarios (1) • Pure research: • One piece of research as input to next • Product innovation: • R&D leading to product creation lifecycle • Component innovation: • R&D leads to manufacture of component • Component feeds into product lifecycle • Product improvement: • Operational shortcomings lead to new creation • Market-led innovation: • Operational shortcomings lead to new R&D PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

13. Knowledge creation Researcher Research Development Requirements Design Manufacturing Operations Research Development Requirements Design Manufacturing Requirements Design Manufacturing Operations Component System Stakeholders: scenarios (2) Pure academic scenario: Product innovation scenario: Component innovation scenario: PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

14. shortcomings Operations Requirements Design Manufacturing Operations new needs Operations new needs shortcomings Research Development Requirements Design Manufacturing Stakeholders: scenarios (3) Product improvement scenario: Market-led innovation scenario: PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

15. Planner Manufacturer SOP author Researcher Developer Regulator Instructor Analyst Controller Manufacturer Stakeholders: P&S needs provides experience determines goals, resources & standards provides experience on shortcomings provides as-built domain knowledge provides plans provides state information provides SOPs provides P&S tools instructs PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

16. Product creation academic knowledge products, services demos, prototypes Research Development Application 38 + 2 Universities Research institutes 12 + 1 Products: 8 + 1 Services: 4 Suppliers 1 Users European capabilities (1) PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

17. European capabilities (2) • Teaching • R&D: • Advanced planning & scheduling • Multi-agent technology • Robotics • Web • Products: • Workforce management • Robotics • Planning support: • Capturing domain knowledge for P&S • Generating plans/schedules • Animating & visualising plans/schedules • Constraint programming • Services: • (Spacecraft) mission planning • (Spacecraft) assembly, integration & testing PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

18. Country: Austria Belgium Cyprus Czech France Germany Greece Hungary Italy Netherlands Portugal Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom Univ: 0 0 1 1 1 7 5 0 6 1 0 1 6 2 7 European capabilities (3) Inst: 0 0 0 0 3 2 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 Supplier: 1 2 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 User: 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

19. European capabilities (4) • Capabilities in Germany: • Universities: • University of Ulm, Faculty of Computer Science: • Mechanical inference systems • Multi-agent systems • Task planning • Knowledge representation for autonomous systems • SW development & safety-critical systems • Aachen University of Technology (RWTH Aachen), Knowledge-Based Systems group • Knowledge representation • Robotics PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

20. European capabilities (5) • Capabilities in Germany: • Universities (cont): • Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn: • Descriptive programming • Object-oriented databases • Geographical information systems • Internet information systems • Knowledge-based systems • Computer-supported cooperative working • AI & autonomous mobile systems (robotics) PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

21. European capabilities (6) • Capabilities in Germany: • Universities (cont): • TU Darmstadt, Intellectics group: • Deduction • Knowledge representation • Plan generation • Machine learning • Stochastic search • University of Freiburg, Institute for Computer Science: • Algorithms & data structures • Computer architecture • Software engineering • Foundations of AI PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

22. European capabilities (7) • Capabilities in Germany: • Universities (cont): • Munich University of Technology, Intelligent Autonomous Systems group: • Structured reactive controllers • Plan-based control of robotic agents • Plan-based control of software agents PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

23. European capabilities (8) • Capabilities in Germany: • Institutes: • Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology & Applied Work Science (BIBA), University of Bremen: • (PLT) Production structure, logistics & telematics • (ATOP) Applied work science, industrial management, organisation & work development • (PPC) Product development, process planning & computer-aided engineering • (MAQ) Metrology, automation & quality science • (IPS) Intelligent production & logistics systems PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

24. European capabilities (9) • Capabilities in Germany: • Institutes (cont): • DFKI: • Deduction & multi-agent systems • Knowledge management • Intelligent user interfaces • Intelligent visualisation & simulation systems • Language technology • Fraunhofer Institute, Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems: • Knowledge computing • Autonomous robots PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

25. European capabilities (10) • Capabilities in Germany: • Suppliers: • Plasim: Planungs- und Simulationsbüro (Delmenhorst): • Simulation systems for planning: • Logistics • Automobile industry • SMEs (Mittelstand / KMUs) • 3D animation • Related services • Siemens AG: • Automation & control • Information & communications • Ximes GmbH (Vienna): • Shift planning & operating hours PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI

26. European capabilities (11) • Capabilities in Germany: • Users: • European Space Operations Centre (Darmstadt): • Spacecraft mission planning • Spacecraft mission control: • SCOS-II (30 users) PLANET Ulm I-day: PSARI