DESIGNING MULTI-AGENT BASED LINKED STATE MACHINE
Hyacinth Chibueze Inyiama · International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology · 2013
Every industrial process control algorithm can be represented as an ASM chart and every ASM chart can be implemented using the state agent based approach.This paper describes a simplified approach to implementing complex process control systems using the agent-based paradigm.It shows that when the system is complex, it can be broken up into a series of ASM charts, and each of those ASM charts can be implemented using agent-based approach comprising of one process agent and a number of state agents.These agent based systems together perform the complex industrial process control.This structure can be interconnected to form a linked state machine in order to realize a multi-agent based linked state structure.This is a 'divide and conquer' approach that is much simpler than tackling the control system implementation as one very complex effort.