A Wireless Multiagent Architecture for Structural Health Monitoring that Incorporates Web Services
Albert Esterline, William Wright, Mannur J. Sundaresan · AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2010 · 2010
This paper reports on a prototype architecture for structural health monitoring (SHM) systems and reviews the literature in the relevant areas. A wireless sensor network (WSN) infrastructure is generally assumed. A WSN can be extended to a sensor web either in the accessible sense (making resources available on the World Wide Web) or in the collaborative sense (where nodes collaborative in responding to events). Almost all sensor webs for SHM discussed in the literature are collaborative sensor webs and many are structured as multiagent systems (MASs), but the prototype described here is a sensor web fully in both senses whose application area is SHM. Besides discussing sensor webs and MASs for SHM and outlining the prototype architecture and the negotiation mechanism used therein, this paper discusses the formal verification of the prototype’s design and possible enhancements to the prototype.