Multiagent-based monitoring-fault diagnosis-control integrated system for chemical process

This paper presents an integrated system which has monitoring, fault diagnosis and control function for chemical processes. The system is based on multiagent technology. In this paper, three agents are made to build the integrated system. They are monitoring agent, fault diagnosis agent and control agent. They can work together in an integrated frame. The difficulty lies in solving the coordinating tasks in communication, interaction and cooperation and finally obtains a good solution. This multiagent system can supply optimal decision for the enterprise and it will be the fundamental of completed automation in future.