Hierarchical Control System for Complex Dynamical Plants

The paper is devoted to a concept of hierarchical control for complex dynamical plants and suggests architecture of control system consisting of robust, adaptive, and intelligent levels. Intelligent features of the proposed system are mostly concentrated at the third level incorporated into self-organizing algorithm and decision making approach realized by developers and process engineers. Some results are presented from present groundwork of research performed and future work is outlined. Case study has been chosen from the area of plasma magnetic and kinetic control in tokamak-reactor.