Symbolic sensors

Eric Benoit (1) , Laurent Foulloy (1)

1 LISTIC - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Systèmes, Traitement de l'Information et de la Connaissance

This paper deals with sensors which compute and report linguistic assessments of their values.Such sensors, called symbolic sensors are a natural extension of smart ones when working with control systems which use artificial intelligence based technics. After having recalled the smart sensor concepts, this paper introduces the symbolic sensor ones. Links between the physical world and the symbolic one are described. It is then shown how Zadeh's approximate reasoning theory provides a smart way to implement symbolic sensors. Finally, since the symbolic sensor is a general component, a functional adaptation to the measurement context is proposed.

Mots clés: Smart Sensors; Symbolic Sensors; Intelligent Sensors

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]; Informatique

Eric Benoit, Laurent Foulloy. Symbolic sensors. International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Based Measurement and Control, Sep 1991, Kyoto, Japan. pp.131-136. ⟨hal-00143363⟩