Modelling Real-time Constraints Regarding Reconfiguration Aspects for IEC 61499 Control Applications

Gunnar Grabmair, Alois Zoitl, Thomas Strasser, Roman Froschauer

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Abstract

The complexity of automation and control systems is fast increasing in order to satisfy the arising needs of the manufacturing industry. The central exigencies for new production facilities are flexibility, adaptability and reconfigurabilty in combination with guarantees for downtime less operation. Additionally modern automation systems are supposed to execute control applications distributed across heterogeneous networks The standard IEC 61499 introduces a function block oriented architecture which should be able to satisfy most of these new requirements. Still some of the open issues within the standards definition are the consideration of real-time constrained applications, the missing possibilities and conventions to define an explicit execution order and the absence of an appropriate modelling technique for real-time constraint specification. Furthermore in case of reconfiguration of control applications similar or different real-time requirements must be fulfilled which have to be considered during the engineering process. Therefore the main topic of this paper discusses investigations on possibilities to define and model real-time constraints within reconfigurable IEC 61499 applications.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationINDIN 2007 Conference Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics
PublisherIEEE
Pages1089-1094
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)1424408644, 9781424408641
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN07) - Wien, Austria
Duration: 23 Jul 200727 Jul 2007
http://www.indin2007.org

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)
Volume2
ISSN (Print)1935-4576

Conference

Conference5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN07)
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityWien
Period23.07.200727.07.2007
Internet address

Keywords

  • Real-Time Constraints
  • Distributed Systems
  • Reconfiguration
  • IEC 61499

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