An agent-based approach to reconfiguration of real-time distributed control systems

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 444-451

  Brennan, Robert W ^a,b   Fletcher, Martyn ^c   Norrie, Douglas H ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Agent Oriented Software Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent based systems; Distributed control

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT CONTROL SYSTEM; HOLONIC MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MANUFACTURING DATA PROCESSING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PLANNING; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036703349     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2002.802211     Document Type: Article

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