7 - Intelligent system control: A unified approach and applications

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This chapter describes the hierarchical real-time control systems reference model architecture aiming at designing and developing intelligent control for large and complex engineering systems. Real time control system (RCS) is based on several general and fundamental principles of engineering systems. This chapter presents the methodology, or the development process, to apply RCS to the system control. The RCS reference model architecture and methodology provide a simple and systematic mechanism to obtain, describe, and organize domain operational knowledge. The single-node concept improves human understanding of the design. The process-template-based implementation approach gives a systemwide consistent interfacing infrastructure, freeing the developers from the infrastructural issues and allowing them to concentrate on individual component technology. The RCS methodology prescribes modular real-time simulation and animation functions. This facilitates early concept visualization and rapid prototyping that, in turn, reduces development cost. This chapter describes three intelligent systems division (ISD) case study control systems. The case study descriptions demonstrate the richness of the RCS architecture, from a generic process-template-based system to real-time rich sensing and planning systems. The case studies also describe the evolution and the road map of the methodology, from base-class models to process and interface definitions and to the plan of fully exercising the methodology.