DocumentCode :
1969886
Title :
Agent Infrastructure for Distributed Control and Interoperability
Author :
Maturana, FrFrancisco ; Tichý, Pavel ; Vrba, Pavel ; Marík, Vladimír ; Staron, Raymond ; Hall, Kenwood
Author_Institution :
Rockwell Autom.
fYear :
2006
fDate :
15-16 June 2006
Firstpage :
145
Lastpage :
145
Abstract :
We are interested in providing an agent infrastructure for truly distributed control. Requirements include multiple language implementations so that this agent host environment can exist in both real-time controllers and Java-based devices, and the ability to operate with external agent systems. Our first infrastructure, the autonomous cooperative system (ACS), accomplished these goals, but presented other issues. Although ACS has been successfully deployed on commercial controllers, new releases of controllers will cause complications in the evolution of the software and adoption of future functionality. We need to establish a formal integration procedure of the agent functionality with the controllers and to transform the underlying system into a fully integrated and open heterogeneous system. This challenge implies changes to the controllers for the creation of the agents and changes that would radically affect the agent core. In this document, we discuss the requirements and results of that transformation
Keywords :
Java; control engineering computing; distributed control; multi-agent systems; open systems; real-time systems; Java-based devices; agent functionality; agent host environment; agent infrastructure; autonomous cooperative system; distributed control; formal integration procedure; interoperability; multiple language implementations; open heterogeneous system; real time controllers; Automatic control; Automation; Control systems; Cooperative systems; Distributed control; Drives; Intelligent agent; Intelligent systems; Java; Real time systems;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Intelligent Systems: Collective Intelligence and Its Applications, 2006. DIS 2006. IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2589-X
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/DIS.2006.7
Filename :
1633433
Link To Document :
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