Artificial intelligence in science of measurements: from measurement instruments to perceptive agencies

Author

Amigoni, Francesco ; Brandolini, Arnaldo ; Antona, Gabriele D. ; Ottoboni, Roberto ; Somalvico, Marco

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Volume

52

Issue

3

fYear

2003

fDate

6/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

716

Lastpage

723

Abstract

This paper motivates, from historical, philosophical, and industrial points of view, the adoption of a novel scheme for developing complex measuring systems as perceptive agencies. The general concept of agency, a cooperative multiagent system defined within distributed artificial intelligence and robotics, is discussed together with its particular application to the field of intelligent instruments. An embryonic example of perceptive agency applied to the field of environmental monitoring is reported.

Keywords

artificial intelligence; computerised instrumentation; cooperative systems; knowledge based systems; measurement systems; multi-agent systems; complex measuring systems; cooperative multiagent system; cooperative systems; distributed artificial intelligence; environmental monitoring; intelligent instruments; knowledge-based systems; perceptive agencies; Artificial intelligence; Embryo; Instruments; Intelligent agent; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Monitoring; Multiagent systems; Service robots; Software measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TIM.2003.814694

Filename

1213652