Complex industrial control with a real-time expert system (RIGAS)

The increasing complexity and criticality of systems requiring real-time functionalities in several fields (control, alarm processing, fault diagnosis, etc.) has caused a growing interest in introducing artificial intelligence techniques into classically considered programming areas, in real time, producing advanced tools for the development of complex control software from different approaches. The control of complex systems is one of the natural candidates to combine real time and expert systems. A real time expert system for process control, called RIGAS, and its use for the control of a complex system is described in this paper