A Laboratory Infrastructure for the Evaluation of the Use of Multi-Agent Technologies in Industrial SCADA Systems

Abstract:

This paper presents some considerations on the posibility of using of multi-agent systems MAS in building SCADA systems. It also describes the laboratory test bench developed by us for the testing of the SCADA-MAS compound. It is shown the reflection in the literature of the SCADA-MAS subject to the extent that it exists and the main concepts underlying the two important technologies, one of which is of technical and engineering origin, and the other is related to artificial intelligence. We evaluates the prejudgement concerning incompatibility or the disimilarity of the two technologies having divergent characteristics. We propose research directions suitable for multi-agent systems to assist in solving industrial SCADA networks.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 656)
• Pages: 432-441
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.656.432
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Eugen Diaconescu*, Florentina Magda Enescu
• Keywords: Control System, Distribute System, Manufacturing Systems, Multi-Agent System (MAS), SCADA

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