Re-Engineering Complex Process Control Systems Using Sub-Process Agents

摘要

A process control systems design method whose architecture incorporates the use of agents, process agents and subprocess agents to further reduce the complexity of the system was developed. This is an improvement on an earlier architecture which employed only agents and process agents in its processing. An Algorithmic State Machine (ASM) chart of a complex system with or without a natural divide can be segmented into sub-units and a sub-process agent assigned to each sub-unit. Each of these sub-process agents ensures that systems performance information of each sub-unit is obtained and stored. These information would be used when evaluating system performance or for error tracking........