A FRAMEWORK FOR EXECUTING COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE OVER DISTRIBUTED EMBEDDED NODES

Manufacturing and mining automation, robotics, swarms and smart device networks are often implemented upon distributed embedded systems. These systems are typically statically distributed, coarsely reconfigurable or deployed on homogeneous networks. A conceptual stack can be formed using modelling languages, system performance analysis and optimisation and reconfigurable platformneutral components to overcome these problems. A framework for computational intelligence-based applications to be built upon this stack has been proposed. Model-Driven Architecuture has been shown to be a promising standard for the modelling, design and development of embedded applications. The Theory of Constraints is proposed as a potential technique for performance analysis and optimisation of distributed systems. Mobile Agents and code mobility can be used in the component architecture to allow for adaptation and reconfiguration for optimisation. KEY WORDS Distributed and embedded systems, system design automation.