C. Schwab, M. Tangermann, A. Luder, A. Kalogeras, L. Ferrarini
{"title":"Mapping of IEC 61499 function blocks to automation protocols within the TORERO approach","authors":"C. Schwab, M. Tangermann, A. Luder, A. Kalogeras, L. Ferrarini","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417319","url":null,"abstract":"The design of distributed control systems (DCS) contains three major parts: (1) the programming of the control application code of the DCS, (2) the functional allocation of the control application code to the specific devices that the DCS consists of, and (3) the mapping of the distributed control application code to the underlying communication platform depending on the distribution. This paper presents an approach for the mapping of event triggered IEC 61499 function blocks to the underlying automation protocols, whereas time triggered and event triggered automation protocols will be considered. This work is part of the research project TORERO, which is funded by the European Commission under the IST program","PeriodicalId":212609,"journal":{"name":"2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2004. INDIN '04. 2004","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130745569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agent-based decision support systems for the industry: application to transportation and distribution of energy products and water supply networks","authors":"T. Mora, M. Ulieru","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417367","url":null,"abstract":"A distributed approach, specifically the multiagent paradigm, is evaluated as methodology for designing decision support systems (DSS). The main properties of multi-agent systems (MAS) theory such as modularity leaning abilities, and autonomy, are exploited to overcome weaknesses of current DSS design approaches. The approach has been evaluated as proof of concept on two scenarios from the natural gas pipelines operations. Preliminary results on the small-scale system tested are promising showing that the proposed approach is feasible. Some remarks about implementation requirements and challenges to be addressed in the future conclude the paper","PeriodicalId":212609,"journal":{"name":"2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2004. INDIN '04. 2004","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130853909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inexpensive tools for measuring Ethernet performance","authors":"G. Cena, B. Cibrario, A. Valenzano","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417349","url":null,"abstract":"In the past years Ethernet became the \"de facto\" standard for communications in office automation. Today it is felt that it can be profitably used also at the cell and field levels in automated factory environments. Being able to evaluate and monitor the actual performance of Ethernet networks when they are used for supporting real-time data exchanges is of paramount importance in the light of their adoption in manufacturing plants. In this paper it is shown that, by means of a careful design, it is possible to develop analysis tools running on a standard non-real-time Linux platform for measuring network parameters, such as transmission latencies, with a more than satisfactory level of accuracy","PeriodicalId":212609,"journal":{"name":"2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2004. INDIN '04. 2004","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134642887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robot-based 3D imaging in industrial inspection","authors":"M. Gomercic, D. Winter","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417376","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, 3D scanners are presented for industrial quality assurance and 3D inspection. The paper also shows a typical measuring procedure of a full-field measurement using a modern 3D scanner. For the inspection of large and complex components, a robot is used, together with a rotation table. The data of a digitized cylinder head cover compared to the respective CAD data set were also shown","PeriodicalId":212609,"journal":{"name":"2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2004. INDIN '04. 2004","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128597626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grey level modification steganography for secret communication","authors":"V. Potdar, E. Chang","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417333","url":null,"abstract":"Security, privacy, anti-virus, trusted computing, intrusion detection and information protection are major concerns in today's industrial informatics. They are regarded as critical components for industrial based IT solutions (Zincheng, N et al.,2003). Most industrial software systems rely on the third party vendors to provide the safeguards. This approach in turn brings up a major issue regarding the trust of the third parties. We often see that in one industrial system, there may be several other parties' trustees in order to provide all the security needs, in this paper, we describe an approach that can provide security and information protection through steganography, without a need for third party trustees. We present a steganographic algorithm, which is an information hiding technique which allows secret communication, to cover and recover hidden information within the spatial domain of the image. It has low computational complexity and high information hiding capacity. The principle behind the algorithm is to embed information by modifying the grey level values of the grey scale image pixels. We demonstrate this method by giving examples as proof of the concepts","PeriodicalId":212609,"journal":{"name":"2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2004. INDIN '04. 2004","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127399180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. T. Pham, E. Eldukhri, B. Peat, R. Setchi, A. Soroka, M. Packianather, A. Thomas, Y. Danam, S. Dimov
{"title":"Innovative production machines and systems (I*PROMS): a network of excellence funded by the EU sixth framework programme","authors":"D. T. Pham, E. Eldukhri, B. Peat, R. Setchi, A. Soroka, M. Packianather, A. Thomas, Y. Danam, S. Dimov","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417403","url":null,"abstract":"The network of excellence (NoE) for innovative production machines and systems (I*PROMS) is designed to integrate the activities of leading European Union (El)) research institutions in the field of production research. I*PROMS seeks to facilitate the development of common concepts, tools and techniques enabling the creation and operation of flexible, re-configurable, fault-tolerant and eco- and user-friendly production systems that can react to changing customer needs, environmental requirements, design inputs, and material / process / labour availability to manufacture high quality, cost-effective products. Initially. I*PROMS addresses the six 'Visionary Manufacturing Challenges for 2020* published by the National Academy of Sciences, namely, concurrent manufacturing, integration of human and technical resources, conversion of information to knowledge, environmental compatibility, reconfigurable enterprises, and innovative manufacturing processes and products. Research on those themes would be prosecuted by four interconnected I*PROMS clusters: advanced production machines (APM), production automation and control (PAC), innovative design technology (IDT) and production organisation and management (POM)","PeriodicalId":212609,"journal":{"name":"2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2004. INDIN '04. 2004","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122355398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An IEC-compliant field device model for distributed control applications","authors":"K. Thramboulidis, G. Doukas, T.G. Psegiannakis","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417344","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging IEC standards such as IEC61499 and IEC61804, propose an architecture for the development of distributed control systems (DCSs). Reference implementations are expected to demonstrate the applicability of this proposal. In this paper, we present the architecture of a field device that is compliant with the IEC model. Modifications to the IEC model regarding management function blocks, as well as, service interface function blocks are adopted to simplify the function block design model and enhance the performance of the resulting implementation model. A layered approach is adopted exploiting real-time Linux and the publish-subscribe model on top of real-time CORBA. A prototype reference implementation is presented utilizing: a) a real-time CORBA object request broker for the intra-device communication layer, and b) comedy for the proposed mechanical process interface layer. The proposed model supports the re-configuration of the control application even during run time","PeriodicalId":212609,"journal":{"name":"2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2004. INDIN '04. 2004","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116131517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A proposal for multi-agent system based modeling and validation of self-organization","authors":"U. Arronategui, D. Moldt","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417342","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic self-organization is a basic feature to autonomic computing systems (ACS). But its modeling and validation, being important issues, remain complex. Here, the conceptual integration of multi-agent systems and high-level Petri nets can help with their powerful concepts and tools. We propose an homogeneous modeling technique integrating three concepts: agents, environments and nets within nets which are supported by the RENEW tool, allowing direct execution of the model. This paper gives some insight in the proposed approach. The dynamic self-integration of a service of code mobility in an operating system is used as an illustrating example","PeriodicalId":212609,"journal":{"name":"2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2004. INDIN '04. 2004","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121815170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance analysis of distributed strategies for material flow control of modular production systems based on discrete event simulation","authors":"K. Feldmann, M. Weber, W. Wolf, G. Meckl","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417407","url":null,"abstract":"Modular production systems are an excellent possibility to meet the increasing complexity of production tasks, which result form a rising number of simultaneously produced product variants. These systems consist very often of standard modules, which can be connected randomly via a fixed linked transportation system; so different requirements can be accomplished. This flexibility results in a high degree of complexity for the material flow control that is increased additionally when the dynamic behaviour of the system is strongly raised by high product variety and fluctuating production mixes. Other factors having negative effects on the dynamic behaviour of the system are parasitic drag that are found in every production, like failures in work stations or in the transportation system, dead times or maintenances, in this paper different material flow strategies for the application in variant rich production environments are analysed: station oriented routing, task oriented routing, task oriented routing with load balancing and workpiece centred, agent oriented routing with consideration of priorities. These strategies were examined with two models of production systems in different scenarios on their characteristics by an event discrete simulator","PeriodicalId":212609,"journal":{"name":"2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2004. INDIN '04. 2004","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125204299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Seilonen, T. Pirttioja, P. Appelqvist, K. Koskinen, A. Halme
{"title":"Modelling cooperative control in process automation with multi-agent systems","authors":"I. Seilonen, T. Pirttioja, P. Appelqvist, K. Koskinen, A. Halme","doi":"10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2004.1417341","url":null,"abstract":"An approach to modeling cooperative control systems and their operation in process automation is presented in this paper. In this approach agent-oriented software engineering techniques are used throughout the design of cooperative control systems both as modeling method and as implementation technology. A part of a process automation system is modeled as a multi-agent society, which adhere to goal-oriented behavior both in their internal and cooperative operations. Another idea in the approach is to use qualitative process modeling in planning of control operations. The approach outlines a generic process automation agent system, which can be applied to building cooperative control applications. Sequential and supervisory control are presented as example applications. The approach is illustrated with examples from a prototype control system build for a laboratory test process","PeriodicalId":212609,"journal":{"name":"2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2004. INDIN '04. 2004","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125120367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}