An Integrated Development Environment for transparent fuzzy agents design: An application to automotive Electronic Stability Program

In the last years several computing frameworks based on the ubiquitous and embedding properties have been designed and realized. These systems, characterized by the interconnection of several devices embedded into a micro-environment and interacting among them in order to achieve a common goals, offer new fascinating challenges to face as, for instance, the interoperability and safety problems. The automotive environments are a typical sample of ubiquitous and embedded systems, in fact, modern cars can be considered as mobile computer network composed of intelligent devices capable of controlling the mechanical and hydraulic car components. This study presents an advanced integrated development environment modeling FNM-based fuzzy controllers useful to design an efficient electronic stability program (ESP) to be reprogrammed on different hardware without additional effort. In this scenario, multi-agent paradigm and transparent fuzzy control methodology represent the natural technologies exploited to achieve the proposed aims.