Automatic Reengineering of IEC 61131-Based Control Applications into IEC 61499

Industrial areas like manufacturing, logistics and power systems require highly flexible and adaptable control solutions in order to fulfill future requirements. An industrial automation system has to provide technologies, concepts and mechanisms allowing the adaption of control logic during operation. Proper engineering approaches as well as execution environments with dynamic reconfiguration capabilities are needed to turn this vision into reality. This article provides an overview of applying the IEC 61499 reference model for distributed automation as basis for a standard-compliant reconfigurable method in industrial environments. It covers the modeling and engineering of reconfiguration applications and their execution on distributed embedded controllers using IEC 61499. This approach significantly increases engineering efficiency and reuse in component-based design of industrial automation and control applications. A special focus of this contribution is the discussion of implemented industrial use cases from the manufacturing, robotics and power systems domain.

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IEC 61131-3 control applications vs. control applications transformed in IEC 61499

IFAC Proceedings Volumes ◽

10.3182/20100701-2-pt-4011.00007 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 30-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Monika Wenger ◽

Reinhard Hametner ◽

Alois Zoitl

Keyword(s):

Control Applications ◽

Iec 61499

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Zero-Downtime Reconfiguration of Distributed Control Logic in Industrial Automation and Control

Reconfigurable Embedded Control Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-086-0.ch003 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 55-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Thomas Strasser ◽

Alois Zoitl ◽

Martijn Rooker

Keyword(s):

Control Systems ◽

New Technologies ◽

Reference Model ◽

Industrial Process ◽

Control Logic ◽

Control Applications ◽

Automation And Control ◽

Engineered Systems ◽

And Control ◽

Iec 61499

Future manufacturing is envisioned to be highly flexible and adaptable. New technologies for efficient engineering of reconfigurable systems and their adaptations are preconditions for this vision. Without such solutions, engineering adaptations of Industrial Process Measurement and Control Systems (IPMCS) will exceed the costs of engineered systems by far and the reuse of equipment will become inefficient. Especially the reconfiguration of control applications is not sufficiently solved by state-of-the-art technology. This chapter gives an overview of the use of reconfiguration applications for zero-downtime system reconfiguration of control applications on basis of the standard IEC 61499 which provides a reference model for distributed and reconfigurable control systems. A new approach for the reconfiguration of IEC 61499 based control application and the corresponding modeling is discussed. This new method significantly increases engineering efficiency and reuse in component-based IPMCS.

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