Title :
A distributed system for laboratory process automation
Author :
Cardoso, Francisco J A
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Fisica, Coimbra Univ., Portugal
fDate :
10/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A distributed system for laboratory process monitoring and control is presented. In the course of its development some of the issues involved in producing a real-time system that is highly distributed yet closely cooperating have been explored. The reasoning that led to this design and the resulting characteristics of the system are discussed. In particular, the overall system architecture, the coordinator center, and the remote terminal are described
Keywords :
data acquisition; distributed control; nuclear electronics; physics computing; coordinator center; distributed system; laboratory process monitoring; real-time system; remote terminal; system architecture; Automatic control; Automation; Humans; Laboratories; Monitoring; Performance loss; Process control; Real time systems; Robustness; Time sharing computer systems;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
