Distributed intelligent control system for a continuous-state plant

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 395-401

  Stothert, Alec ^a   MacLeod, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Continuous state plants; Distributed intelligent control; Real time

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEM; REAL TIME CONTROLLER;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

EID: 0031168767     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.584947     Document Type: Article

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