Application of agent technology concepts to the design of a fault-tolerant control system

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 459-469

  Romanenko, Andrey ^a   Santos, Lino O ^a   Afonso, Paulo A F N A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Agent technology; Fault detection and diagnosis; Fault tolerance; Process control system

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SENSORS;

AGENT TECHNOLOGY; FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; FEED LINE;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SENSORS;

EID: 33846393925     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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