creator Bangs, Edmund R. creator Longinow, Nicholas E. creator Blaha, James R. The technique and arrangement of distributed, real time, intelligent control of welding including IR detection and measurement of process conditions, and controlling process parameters in view of a knowledge base including a predetermined rule set for interpreting the results of IR detection. The arrangement includes a multilevel communication scheme internally and between hardware nodes of the arrangement, and the data-driven scheduling of inference processes under direction of a semantic network. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2011-12-06T19:19:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 4877940.pdf: 3883946 bytes, checksum: 03e024a16d52a5e1b21f6719f4e8588a (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-12-06T19:19:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4877940.pdf: 3883946 bytes, checksum: 03e024a16d52a5e1b21f6719f4e8588a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1989-10-31 IIT Research Institute 2009-05-08 1989-10-31 4,877,940 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2372 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access