MultiAgent Based On-line Monitoring System for MSW Incinerator

This paper studies and develops multi agent-based on-line monitoring system for MSW incinerator. With the advent of industry facilities toward high speed and automation, the on-line monitoring mechanism becomes important. The traditional time-based maintenance strategy cannot consider all practical conditions of MSW incinerator. The accidental breakdowns may occur unexpectedly. In order to make MSW incineration automatic, an effective way is to ensure MSW incineration facilities running smoothly and to reduce the manpower monitoring. Meanwhile in order to reduce the cost of development and enhance the feature of reuse, we use a communication interface to integrate and interact information among on-line system. Through this system, users may easily monitor the important device of the MSW incinerator through user interfaces, such as display of device status, malfunction alarming, trend chart, etc. A model consisting of domain knowledge and behaviors of cooperative multi-agents to integrate various facilities and functions in different MSW incinerator is proposed. In addition, via a Web-based environment, it releases the restrictions by of temporal and regional isolation. The system provides a real-time and dynamical operation circumstance and can meet the needs of different levels of users. Consequently, it is of great help to lower the cost of personnel and enhance the process stability of MSW incinerator.