Software Technology for Implementing Reusable, Distributed Control Systems

IEEE Control Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-35

  Heck, H ^a   Wills, W ^a   Vachtsevanos, V ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTEROPERABILITY; MIDDLEWARE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SENSORS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT-BASED ARCHITECTURE; REUSABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037299722     PISSN: 1066033X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCS.2003.1172827     Document Type: Article

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