Title :
Design and implementation of a real-time multi-agent system
Author :
Weiss, Reinhold ; Steger, Christian
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Tech. Inf., Tech. Univ. Graz, Austria
Abstract :
We present an experimental multi-agent system for model-based real-time fault diagnosis in modular production systems. The architecture comprises a set of hierarchically organized process agents, a simulation agent and a user agent. We discuss the most interesting characteristics of this new real-time AI architecture. A key component in model-based diagnosis is simulation; in our solution a distributed Petri-net simulator and a parallel continuous simulator, both based on multiple TMS320C40 signal processors, form the core of the process agents and the simulation agent, respectively
Keywords :
Petri nets; digital simulation; fault diagnosis; model-based reasoning; multi-agent systems; production engineering computing; real-time systems; TMS320C40 signal processors; distributed Petri-net simulator; experimental system; hierarchically organized process agents; model-based real-time fault diagnosis; modular production systems; parallel continuous simulator; process agents; real-time multi-agent system; simulation agent; user agent; Artificial intelligence; Fault diagnosis; Fires; Monitoring; Multiagent systems; Production systems; Radar; Real time systems;
Conference_Titel :
Electrotechnical Conference, 1998. MELECON 98., 9th Mediterranean
Conference_Location :
Tel-Aviv
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3879-0
DOI :
10.1109/MELCON.1998.699440
