25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-7.9.2

TOWARD A FIPA COMPLIANT MULTI-AGENT REAL-TIME ARCHITECTURE FOR INTEGRATED MODULAR AVIONICS

J. Duscher, N. Oswald*, R. Reiger
EADS CRC/LG-AS, Germany; *EADS Military Aircraft

Keywords: modular avionics, multi-agent system, peer-to-peer, distributed blackboard

We propose a multi-agent based real-time architecture providing an efficient, flexible, scalable, and fault-tolerant peer-to-peer infrastructure for heterogeneous IMA that conforms to FIPA standards. It supports safety partitioning and enables avionic components to intelligently and efficiently adapt the network topology and the focus of information processing to current system needs.

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