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T. Strasser:
"Distributed and Reconfigurable Automation Approaches Applied to Industrial Systems";
Technische Universität Wien, Fakultät für Maschinenwesen und Betriebswissenschaften, 2017.

The complexity of automation and control applications in manufacturing environments and in the domain of power and energy systems is steadily increasing. Various actuators, sensors, and measurement units connected to control devices from different vendors have to work together with supervisory control and management systems, often in heterogeneous communication networks. Automation concepts and tools used in these areas usually have to deal with a complex structure of distributed and autonomously acting units. Recent trends in the research community indicate that such control devices are becoming increasingly intelligent so that they can perform tasks autonomously. Nowadays, they are equipped with powerful computing resources. In order to master the complexity of such highly interconnected and collaborative devices which can be considered as "Distributed Intelligent Systems", advanced methods and concepts are needed, encompassing their life cycle of planning, engineering, operation, and adaptation.

This habilitation thesis targets the design, development, and operation of distributed intelligent automation systems that accomplish advanced tasks in the industrial areas of manufacturing as well as power and energy systems. Distributed and reconfigurable automation architectures, design principles, proof-of-concept validation approaches as well as educational aspects are discussed in this thesis. It is composed out of four review papers and eight peer-reviewed journal articles already published in well-known international journals. The contributions are connected to each other and selected such to present a consistent view on a scientific area.

The thesis starts with a brief overview of current problems, trends, and requirements in the domain of industrial automation. In the following, a brief discussion of distributed and reconfigurable automation approaches, concepts, and application examples applied to the industrial areas of manufacturing as well as power and energy systems is provided. All complied journal articles, which are forming the main part of this thesis, are listed afterwards including a brief description of the main contributions of the applicant. Their relevance and relation to the problem domains of distributed and reconfigureable automation are discussed, as well. Finally, further scientific publications are attached, which have been co-authored by the applicant and which are related to the scientific area targeted by this thesis.

http://katalog.ub.tuwien.ac.at/AC15148042