A hierarchical control system based on agent technology

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent architecture for industrial control process and its software realization. We discuss the concepts and necessity of distributed intelligent control (DIC) based on distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) and multi-agent system (MAS) respectively. A multi-agent architecture for industrial control process is proposed. Moreover, function, components and their processing of every module in the architecture are discussed in detail. The object-oriented software structure is presented as well

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