DESIGNING MULTI-AGENT BASED LINKED STATE MACHINE

Hyacinth C. Inyiama, Ifeyinwa Obiora-Dimson, Christiana C. Okezie

Abstract: Every industrial process control algorithm can be represented as an ASM chart and every ASM chart can be implemented using the state agent based approach. This paper describes a simplified approach to implementing complex process control systems using the agent-based paradigm. It shows that when the system is complex, it can be broken up into a series of ASM charts, and each of those ASM charts can be implemented using agent-based approach comprising of one process agent and a number of state agents. These agent based systems together perform the complex industrial process control. This structure can be interconnected to form a linked state machine in order to realize a multi-agent based linked state structure. This is a ‘divide and conquer’ approach that is much simpler than tackling the control system implementation as one very complex effort

Keywords: Process control, ASM chart, State Transition Table (STT), Multi-agent, Link state machines, Beverage blending

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0207011