Distributed control systems reliability: Consideration of multi-agent behavior

The main goal of this paper is to present new principles of distributed control systems (DCS) with consideration of multi-agent behavior and its reliability aspect. The fault-tolerant control based on networked cascade control architecture is presented with application of intelligent multi- agent behavior. There are different approaches how to increase the reliability of distributed control systems. The approach proposed in this paper profits from reconfiguration mechanism as well as smart quasi-redundant components.