15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
REAL-TIME CONTROL AND MONITORING IN A CONTAINER TERMINAL
J.L. Poza(1), R. Simarro(2), M.A. de la Fuente(3), J. Simó(1), A. Crespo(1)
(1) Departamento de Informática de Sistemas y Computadores (D.I.S.C.A.)
(2) Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática (D.I.S.A.)
(3) Departamento de Informática de Sistemas y Computación (D.S.I.C.)
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
(1) {jopolu, jsimo, alfons}@disca.upv.es
(2) rausifer@upvnet.upv.es
(3) mafuente@dsic.upv.es

Management, control, monitoring and detecting errors in distributed industrial systems is strongly dependent on the physical and functional topology. This article describes a solution to this problem by monitoring the event channel instead of monitoring the nodes. Multi-agents architecture is an appropriate framework to this kind of systems because it optimizes the complete yard management and uses an event-oriented channel to support the communication between agents.
Keywords: Distributed computer control systems, transportation control, monitored control systems
Session slot T-Mo-M21: Posters of Industrial Applications/Area code 9a : Distributed Computer Control Systems