AFECS. Multi-Agent Framework for Experiment Control Systems.

Jastrzembski, E. ; Timmer, C. ; Wolin, E. ; Gyunivan, V. ; Abbott, D.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Distributed control systems;    Java software;    AFECS;    Designing;    Implementing;   

RP-ID  :  DE2008922275

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

AFECS is a pure Java based software framework for designing and implementing distributed control systems. AFECS creates a control system environment as a collection of software agents behaving as finite state machines. These agents can represent real entities, such as hardware devices, software tasks, or control subsystems. A special control oriented ontology language (COOL), based on RDFS (Resource Definition Framework Schema) is provided for control system description as well as for agent communication. AFECS agents can be distributed over a variety of platforms. Agents communicate with their associated physical components using range of communication protocols, including tcl-DP, cMsg (publish-subscribe communication system developed at Jefferson Lab), SNMP (simple network management protocol), EPICS channel access protocol and JDBC.