15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
COMMUNICATIONS IN DISTRIBUTED CONTROL ENVIRONMENT WITH DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION
Raúl Alves, Miguel A. García
Dpt. of Systems Engineering and Automatic Control
University of Valladolid, Spain

Distributed Control Systems are based on assignments of control loops and supervision points to different units. In a first approach, these assignments are made statically and following given distribution criteria. This paper presents a proposal of communications system over a DCS which allows the interchanging of assignments between the control units. The objective is to provide a frame for dynamical load balancing in the system with reactivity against meaningful variables in the system such as changes in the process and control structure, traffic demands or computing load in every processor.
Keywords: Distributed control, dynamic configuration, protocols, load balancing
Session slot T-We-A13: Distributed Computer Control System/Area code 9a : Distributed Computer Control Systems