e-Automation,an Architecture for Distributed Industrial Automation Systems
e-Automation, an Architecture for Distributed Industrial Automation Systems作者机构:Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics The University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3GJ UKNetwork Strategy National Grid Company plc National Grid House Kirby Corner Road Coventry CV4 8JY UK
出 版 物:《International Journal of Automation and computing》 (国际自动化与计算杂志(英文版))
年 卷 期:2004年第1卷第1期
页 面:17-25页
学科分类:08[工学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0802[工学-机械工程] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化]
基 金:The work was supported by The National Grid Company plc UK
主 题:Intelligent agents multi agent system distribute system e Automation monitoring system real time control
摘 要:Due to the complexity of modern industrial systems, a conventional automation system is not capable of providing sufficient information management and high-level intelligent approaches, as achieving these functionalities requires the support of comprehensive data management and coordination between system devices and heterogenous information. This paper proposes the concept of e-Automation, in which computer networking and distributed intelligence agent technologies are applied to industrial automation systems, and presents a hardware and software architecture that implements this concept. An open infrastructure based on multi-agent systems is employed in the proposed architecture of e-Automation, which aims to allow the implementation of diverse tasks and to permit greater configurability than can be obtained from a traditional system. To evaluate our proposed e-Automation concept, this paper presents a case study of substation information management which adopts the proposed e-Automation architecture in power system domain.