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Abstract : |
sharing The Palo Alto Collaborative Testbed (PACT) is a laboratory for joint experimentation in computer-aided concurrent engineering being pursued by research groups at Stanford University, Lockheed, Hewlett-Packard, and Enterprise Integration Technologies. The current prototype integrates four preexisting concurrent engineering systems into a common framework. Each individual system is used to model different aspects of a small robotic manipulator, and to reason about them from a different engineering perspective (dynamics, digital electronics, and software). The systems interact via knowledge-based communication languages and services. Initial PACT experiments have explored engineering knowledge exchange in the context of a distributed simulation and simple incremental redesign scenario. This paper describes the nature of these experiments, the technology underlying them, and the results produced., |
