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Distributed Online Safety Monitor Based on Multi-Agent System and AADL Safety Assessment Model

Amer Dheedan

CONTENTS

13.1  Introduction

13.1.1  Fault Detection and Diagnosis

13.1.2  Alarm Annunciation

13.1.3  Fault Controlling

13.1.4  Monolithic and Distributed Online Safety Monitors

13.1.5  Motivation

13.2  The Monitored System

13.3  Distributed Online Safety Monitor

13.3.1  Distributed Monitoring Model

13.3.2  Multi-Agent System

13.4  Case Study: ABS

13.5  Discussion, Validation and Conclusion

References

13.1    Introduction

Dating back to the early 1980s, research effort has focused on the development of advanced computer-based monitors. Since then, computerised online safety monitors started to appear as computer systems are installed ...