Agent virtual machine for automation controllers. Example application: Shipboard automation

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 616-624

  Maturana, Francisco ^a   Staron, Raymond ^a   Hall, Ken ^a   Tichý, Pavel ^b   Vrba, Pavel ^b   Mařík, Vladimír ^b  

^a ROCKWELL AUTOMATION   (United States)

^b Rockwell Automation sro   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Agents; Automation; Control; Distributed; Virtual machine

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MECHANIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AGENT HOST; AGENT INFRASTRUCTURES; AGENT SYSTEMS; AUTOMATION SYSTEMS; COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROLS; ELSEVIER (CO); EVOLUTION (CO); FULLY INTEGRATED; HETEROGENEOUS (HYBRID) SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION PROCEDURE; REAL TIME CONTROLLERS; UNDERLYING SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL MACHINE (VM);

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 46749133899     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2007.09.011     Document Type: Article

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