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| Format: | Preprint |
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2026
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14788 |
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- Large-scale chemical plants rely on distributed process control systems (PCS) comprising numerous processing units, communication modules, and I/O devices interconnected via industrial networks. The design of a cost-efficient and reliable hardware architecture under partial uncertainty in plant parameters remains a challenging combinatorial optimization problem. This paper proposes a formal model for distributed control system hardware architecture synthesis. A hybrid ant colony-based metaheuristic framework is developed to construct feasible hierarchical architectures. The proposed approach is validated on a large-scale sulfuric acid plant control system case study. Plant parameters are identified from operational data, system stability is analyzed, and a controller synthesis is performed based on the optimized architecture. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the approach and confirm that the obtained architecture satisfies structural and dynamic performance requirements.