A software template approach to building complex large-scale intelligent control systems

A task-oriented systems engineering approach for developing complex, large-scale, integrated, intelligent machine systems using software templates is presented. This methodology can be applied to a wide variety of real-time machine applications. The method presented is built upon the real-time control system (RCS) reference model architecture being defined at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It is believed that the reference architecture and methodology described could form the basis for defining an open-systems architecture for intelligent control systems applications