e-Automation,an Architecture for Distributed Industrial Automation Systems  

作　　者：D.P.Buse J. Fitch 

机构地区：[1]Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GJ, UK,Network Strategy National Grid Company plc, National Grid House, Kirby Corner Road, Coventry CV4 8JY, UK

出　　处：《International Journal of Automation and computing》2004年第1期17-25,共9页国际自动化与计算杂志（英文版）

基　　金：The work was supported by The National Grid Company plc,UK.

摘　　要：Due to the complexity of modern industrial systems, a conventional automation system is not capable of providing sufficient information management and high-level intelligent approaches, as achieving these functionalities requires the support of comprehensive data management and coordination between system devices and heterogenous information. This paper proposes the concept of e-Automation, in which computer networking and distributed intelligence agent technologies are applied to industrial automation systems, and presents a hardware and software architecture that implements this concept. An open infrastructure based on multi-agent systems is employed in the proposed architecture of e-Automation, which aims to allow the implementation of diverse tasks and to permit greater configurability than can be obtained from a traditional system. To evaluate our proposed e-Automation concept, this paper presents a case study of substation information management which adopts the proposed e-Automation architecture in power system domain.Due to the complexity of modern industrial systems, a conventional automation system is not capable of providing sufficient information management and high-level intelligent approaches, as achieving these functionalities requires the support of comprehensive data management and coordination between system devices and heterogenous information. This paper proposes the concept of e-Automation, in which computer networking and distributed intelligence agent technologies are applied to industrial automation systems, and presents a hardware and software architecture that implements this concept. An open infrastructure based on multi-agent systems is employed in the proposed architecture of e-Automation, which aims to allow the implementation of diverse tasks and to permit greater configurability than can be obtained from a traditional system. To evaluate our proposed e-Automation concept, this paper presents a case study of substation information management which adopts the proposed e-Automation architecture in power system domain.

关 键 词：Intelligent agents multi agent system distribute system e AUTOMATION monitoring system REAL time control 

分 类 号：TP273.5[自动化与计算机技术—检测技术与自动化装置]