Design of a new human-machine system for the supervision of a highly automated continuous process

The LAMIH (Laboratory of Automation and Mechanics Industrial and Human) of Valenciennes (France) has developed a new kind of supervisory application in collaboration with the LAG ("Laboratory of Automation of Grenoble", France) and the LIA ("Laboratory of Advanced Computing") of Marcoule (France), a department of the CEA ("Atomic Energy Commission"). In fact, the LAMIH has realized supervisory interfaces which integrate original concepts and an advanced alarm filtering system developed by the LAG, based on a dynamic model of the process and on fuzzy reasoning. This design work was finally concluded by an evaluation on the CEA site at Marcoule by professional supervisory operators.