Autonomous decentralized system

This design paradigm enables the system to continue to function in the event of component failures.

Autonomous decentralized systems have a number of applications including industrial production lines, railway signalling[1] and robotics.

An ADS is a decoupled architecture where each component or subsystem communicates by message passing using shared data fields.

Rather the other subsystems will, depending on their purpose and function, receive the broadcast message and make their own determination on what action (if any) to take.

IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS) is the major conference on this topic.