Software Agents in Industry: A Customized Framework in Theory and Praxis
| Autor: | Volodymyr Vasyutynskyy, Klaus Kabitzsch, S. Theiss |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
Emulation business.industry Totally integrated automation JADE (programming language) Application software computer.software_genre Automation Computer Science Applications Domain (software engineering) Resource (project management) Control and Systems Engineering Software agent Electrical and Electronic Engineering business Software engineering computer Information Systems computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 5:147-156 |
| ISSN: | 1941-0050 1551-3203 |
| Popis: | Recently, distributed agents are increasingly adopted in automation control systems, where they are used for monitoring, data collection, fault diagnosis and control. However, existing agent platforms do not always fulfill the requirements of practical automation applications in respect of real-time properties and resource usage. Often, they offer a lot of functionality that is not necessary in automation and leads to significant overhead in respect of design effort and runtime resources. To meet the specific requirements of the automation domain, a resource-efficient agent platform was developed, which relies on established concepts of agent platforms, but modifies and supplements them accordingly. This platform is implemented in Java and in several C++ variants. This paper describes the architecture of the platform and discusses several performance issues. Results of various performance tests are presented in comparison to the established agent platform JADE. Finally, a practical use case is presented, where the platform is utilized to drive a hardware-in-the-loop emulation and testing environment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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