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Integration strategy for distributed intelligent systems

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In this article, we describe a new framework for designing real-time intelligent control systems. An integrated intelligent system is a large knowledge integration environment that consists of both symbolic reasoning systems (expert systems) and numerical computation packages. These modular software programs are controlled by a meta-system which manages the selection, operation, and communication of these programs. This new architecture can serve as a universal configuration to develop high-performance intelligent systems for many complicated application domains in the real-time manufacturing process. As an example, an intelligent optimal control is utilized to illustrate the integrated intelligent control system.

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  1. Intelligent Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta, T6G 2G6, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Ming Rao

  2. Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 08855, Piscataway, NJ, USA

    Tsung-Shann Jiang

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60680, Chicago, IL, USA

    Jeffrey J. -P. Tsai

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Rao, M., Jiang, TS. & Tsai, J.J.P. Integration strategy for distributed intelligent systems. J Intell Robot Syst 3, 131–146 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00242161

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