


Scalability, reconfigurability, and security
are three aspects of paramount importance in developing efficient,
predictable, and safe control architectures for large-scale networked
industrial automation.
At present, the state of control systems technology is such that the
supervision and control of larger and more complex plants cannot be
achieved without considerable costs in terms of hard infrastructure and
software development.
CHAT is a research project exploring the
research and engineering challenges inherent in the development
of algorithms, protocols and procedures for next generation distributed
control systems, in order to drastically
reducing infrastructure, maintenance and reconfiguration
costs.