摘要：Abstract Wireless sensor networks can be used to monitor many different applications, including factory automation. High-variety manufacturing is becoming the new norm, and requires systems capable of rapidly reconfiguring without downtime. Homogeneous wireless sensor networks may provide a system capable of minimal setup and change-over effort due to their hardware indifferences, but are constrained by limited node lifetime. In this research a distributed, a multi-agent cluster management system that attempts to regulate node death, encouraging maintenance approaches to reclaim and replace nodes is proposed. This system allows the network to continuously operate, and eliminates any downtime due to wireless node power loss. In this paper, an overview of a wireless sensor network management approach, the simulator platform developed using Java Agent Development Environment (JADE) that will be used to test this design, as well as preliminary experimental results using this simulator are proposed. The experimental results focus on the problem of tracking mobile nodes in an industrial wireless sensor network where wireless nodes are subject to battery depletion. The results of preliminary experiments with a heterogeneous network (i.e., a network with pre-defined cluster heads) show that a distributed, multi-agent systems approach is capable of adapting to disturbances resulting from node loss.
关键词：Keywordsdistributed embedded information devicesembedded maintenance algorithmswireless sensor networks
