JADE environment performance evaluation for agent-based continuous process control algorithm

This paper is a part of work on the attempt to implement the continuous control system which dynamically derives the control law during its operation, on basis of a model-based control algorithm. The measurements obtained from the sensors are dynamically included or excluded depending on the availability of individual sensors. The prototype application was developed in the JADE environment, and its feasibility for continuous time-determined control is tested. The relations between the number of sensors, message processing times and available processing power are determined in order to estimate the boundaries for which the task is possible. Additionally, the stability of sampling time was tested, for the case when the time sampling is delegated entirely to agent system without any additional real-time hardware.