Usage of Cognitive Architectures in the Development of Industrial Applications

Abstract

Cognitive architectures, which originate from the field of Artificial Intelligence, implement models for problem-solving and decision-making. These architectures have a wide room for implementation in industrial applications. The goal is to adapt a cognitive architecture to the demands of an application in the area of building automation. It is analyzed, why cognitive architectures are difficult to apply in industrial domain. The result of the analysis is a cognitive process, which is applied to an application in the building automation domain. The use of the architectures is demonstrated within a Java-based based middleware. There, the cognitive architecture is applied for the automatic generation and improvement of control strategies in building automation, which have the goal to minimize energy consumption with minimal reduction of the comfort.