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The cost of em bedding intelligence into sensors and actuators directly has
dramatically reduced over the past 10 years. This has led to the recent ex
plosion of smart sensors and actuators available from manufacturers. Initia
lly, these have been developed for the process control industries but incre
asingly applications in aerospace are being found. Integration of intellige
nt components is being carried out in an ad hoc manner by incorporating sma
rt elements in inherently centralised architectures. This paper discusses t
he application of a multidisciplinary, multiobjective optimisation approach
to a military gas turbine engine control system architecture design, where
implementation benefits and penalties must be systematically evaluated. (C
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