Reconfigurable Distributed Network Control System for Industrial Plant Automation

Network Technology for Distributed Plant Automation

 This paper briefly describes the goals and strategies of the PABADIS project that uses software agent technology to create distributed structures in plant automation. Subsequently, we discuss the network requirements for flexible automation systems, in particular with respect to plug-and-participate mechanisms. Finally, we investigate whether mobile agents are reasonable in such a context. It...

Cybersecurity for Industrial Automation & Control

Controller System for Industrial Automation

It is indeed difficult to say that analogue controllers are definitely better than digital controllers. The point is, they both work. Analogue controllers are based on mechanical parts that cause changes to the process via the final control element. Again like final control elements, these moving parts are subjected to wear and tear over time and that causes the response of the process to be so...

Network Load Imposed by Software Agents in Distributed Plant Automation

The current state of the art in production planning is still dominated by largely centralized solutions. More distributed approaches require a substantial increase in communication, and network load becomes an important factor. This paper presents a distributed plant automation approach based on mobile software agents and investigates the network load generated by the agents in terms of communi...

Distributed 1D-coverage control for a reconfigurable camera network

In this paper we address the problem of covering narrow indoor or outdoor pathways using a network of mobile Cyclops cameras. We propose and validate a 1D sensingperformance model for the detection behavior of the camera. Based on this, we formulate the covering problem as a new type of 1D locational optimization problem that explicitly accounts for the camera-location dependence of the sensing...