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Cooperative task support for the control room

Patel, R., Mitchell, R. and Warwick, K. (1999) Cooperative task support for the control room. In: People in control : an international conference on human interfaces in control rooms, cockpits and command centres, 21-23 June 1999, Bath University, UK, pp. 440-445.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/cp:19990230

Abstract/Summary

The National Grid Company plc. owns and operates the electricity transmission network in England and Wales, the day to day running of the network being carried out by teams of engineers within the national control room. The task of monitoring and operating the transmission network involves the transfer of large amounts of data and a high degree of cooperation between these engineers. The purpose of the research detailed in this paper is to investigate the use of interfacing techniques within the control room scenario, in particular, the development of an agent based architecture for the support of cooperative tasks. The proposed architecture revolves around the use of interface and user supervisor agents. Primarily, these agents are responsible for the flow of information to and from individual users and user groups. The agents are also responsible for tackling the synchronisation and control issues arising during the completion of cooperative tasks. In this paper a novel approach to human computer interaction (HCI) for power systems incorporating an embedded agent infrastructure is presented. The agent architectures used to form the base of the cooperative task support system are discussed, as is the nature of the support system and tasks it is intended to support.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
ID Code:21738
Uncontrolled Keywords:control room, man machine system, user interface, cooperation, electrical network, electric transmission, monitoring control system

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