e-Automation,an Architecture for Distributed Industrial Automation Systems

作     者：D.P.Buse J. Fitch 

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.