Implementation and Analysis of Mobile Agents in a Simulation Environment for Fieldbus Systems

Hunstock R, Rückert U, Hanna T. Implementation and Analysis of Mobile Agents in a Simulation Environment for Fieldbus Systems. In: Proccedings of the 2001 International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-01). Maebashi, Japan; 2001: 484-489.Internet-agents, agents in local area networks or agents in factory production planning e.g. are well known and become more and more popular. The basic technologies which carry the agent technology often base upon JAVA or special agent languages as software and personal-, industrial- or embedded computers and their related network technologies. In the upcoming field of home- and building automation, special, dedicated hard- and software is utilised, called fieldbus systems. Fieldbus systems are equal to computers and computer networks in structure but have restrictions in resources and performance. Mobile agent technology also seems to be an appropriate paradigm for typical applications of building automation. In this paper we present the implementation of a basic agent system in an existing software simulator for a special fieldbus technology. We performed an analysis upon this implementation which indicated that this technology has advantages in fieldbus systems as well