{"title":"Towards Plug and Play in Home and Building Automation Networks","authors":"G. Neugschwandtner","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355254","url":null,"abstract":"High configuration cost hampers the adoption of powerful home automation solutions. Automating the necessary configuration steps will alleviate this problem. The article defines the task of \"plug and play\" in the context of a distributed control system built from smart sensors and actuators and the network management services involved. It gives an overview of existing approaches and outlines the requirements for a comprehensive plug and play solution as well as work-in-progress toward this goal.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124710776","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":"Integrating Manufacturing Equipments Using a Shop Floor Control System","authors":"C. D'Onofrio, M. Bruccoleri, U. Commare","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355378","url":null,"abstract":"A generic manufacturing system must interact with an environment characterized by a strong competition and by continuous technological changes. For this reason there is the necessity to make the system easily and economically modifiable in its hardware and software configuration. One of the main problems in making a manufacturing system re-configurable concerns its control system which has to be accordingly scalable and object oriented. This paper presents a methodology for making a manufacturing control system actually reconfigurable and adaptable to hardware changes in the manufacturing systems components. In particular, a PC-based shop-floor control system has been realized. Such system allows easy integration of new robotic systems in a generic manufacturing system","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121569128","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}
C. Insaurralde, M. A. Seminario, J. Jiménez, J. Girón-Sierra
{"title":"IEC 61499 Model for Avionics Distributed Fuel Systems with Networked Embedded Holonic Controllers","authors":"C. Insaurralde, M. A. Seminario, J. Jiménez, J. Girón-Sierra","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355216","url":null,"abstract":"A current methodology for modeling distributed control systems (DCSs) is the standard IEC 61499. This technology is mainly applied in modern manufacturing industrial automation but it has begun to extend to other application areas. This paper proposes, in the framework of a European Research Project, a widespread use of IEC 61499, modeling an avionic distributed fuel control system (ADFCS) with smart components. The main Project target is to change the actual centralized system architecture to a full distributed one. This new system architecture includes fieldbuses and intelligence on the system components which are automata with holonic behavior. According to these new fuel system characteristics, IEC 61499 is perfectly suitable to develop it and at a time, it is interesting to spread the development of this kind of system. The paper objective is to propose a graphic modeling representation methodology to create an ADFCS with smart components. Thus, the generalization and systematization of ADFCS developments is achieved. This paper presents the main ideas of the new distributed avionic system and the control modeling of this system with IEC 61499 function blocks (FBs). Also, a particular example of ADFCS is presented; a helicopter fuel system.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114550415","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":"Adding Function Blocks of IEC 61499 Semantic Description to Automation Objects","authors":"O. J. L. Orozco, J. Lastra","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355455","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous market changes has leading to a new manufacturing paradigms where the common denominator is the rapid changeover of hardware components for the adjustment of production capacity and functionality. Hardware components for final solutions have been receiving more attention than software components for control. Function blocks from the standard IEC 61499 could offer a viable solution for the encapsulation of algorithms for further distribution. Nevertheless, still are missing IT solutions for automatic discover and composition of function block applications. This works describes one of the stages that will allow searching and therefore automatic discovery of function blocks and composition of applications.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"28 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123568719","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 Simulation Case Study of the new IEEE 802.11e HCCA mechanism in Industrial Wireless Networks","authors":"H. Trsek, J. Jasperneite, S.P. Karanam","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355189","url":null,"abstract":"The advantages of using IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area networks (WLAN) in industrial automation applications are substantial and comprise a higher flexibility, greater mobility and reduced maintenance costs. However, the currently used medium access mechanism makes WLANs non-deterministic and hence not suitable for industrial real-time traffic. The new amendment IEEE 802.11e introduces the HCF controlled channel access (HCCA) for parameterized QoS and the enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) for prioritized QoS. This paper evaluates the performance of the HCCA in an industrial automation network with real-time requirements by means of a simulation case study with the network simulator OPNET and compares the results with the EDCA in terms of latency in various scenarios.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128746064","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 IEC61499 Execution Environment for an aJile-based Field Device","authors":"K. Thramboulidis, N. Papakonstantinou","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355247","url":null,"abstract":"The IEC61499 standard is the first step towards the development of the next generation agile manufacturing systems where distribution, interoperability and re-configuration are between the most important requirements. Development environments that will demonstrate the applicability of this standard in industrial environments are still missing. In this paper an approach that allows the execution of IEC61499 based control applications on an industrial field device is presented. This approach allows the control engineer to design the control application in terms of function block network diagrams, and subsequently exploit the model-driven development paradigm to run the control application on a single-chip real-time Java microcontroller especially designed for real-time embedded applications.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128789883","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":"Towards a Service-Oriented IEC 61499 compliant Engineering Support Environment","authors":"K. Thramboulidis, G. Koumoutsos, G. Doukas","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355462","url":null,"abstract":"The IEC 61499 standard introduces the function block (FB) model to support the development of open, interoperable, distributed control applications (DCAs). Currently available engineering support systems (ESSs) as well as those under development adopt traditional architectural styles and do not cover the whole requirements of the development process of FB-based DCAs. However, the major drawback of traditional ESSs is that of extensibility. This problem can be addressed by providing a public domain framework that can be easily extended. In this paper an approach that promotes the idea of service-oriented computing in the control and automation domain, is described. A service-oriented architectural framework is proposed to provide the infrastructure for the exploitation of service-oriented computing in the development process of factory automation systems. Features required in the development process will be implemented as services and published in the public domain. These services can be used on demand by control engineers to construct their projects' specific engineering support environments.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129659820","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. Filip, O. Proștean, I. Szeidert, C. Vașar, G. Proștean
{"title":"Self-tuning Control Using External Integrator Loop for a Synchronous Generator Excitation System","authors":"I. Filip, O. Proștean, I. Szeidert, C. Vașar, G. Proștean","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355251","url":null,"abstract":"An adaptive self-tuning control solution is exposed in this paper. The control strategy is to minimize a cost function, which incorporates fluctuations of input, output and set point with the system-identified parameters. The designed control strategy proposes to remove the internal integrator component from the adaptive control law (which is inappropriate for some process due to control system instability) and using an external integrator loop, parallel connected with the self-tuning controller.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131040822","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":"Three Layered Business Process Architecture for Workflow Cooperation","authors":"R. Saga, Naoto Okada, H. Tsuji","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355205","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes architecture for workflow cooperation among organizations. To design system architecture, business processes are classified and systematized. The proposed architecture consists of three components: request message converter, business process auto-generator and business process manager. Using WordNet for pair of words, the first component converts a message to a trigger for the second component. Then according to MIT Process Handbook for business process repository, the second component automatically generates a business process instance in an operating order. Finally, referring to case base, the third component decides and manages proper schedule and transactors for the instance from case-base. In an experiment, this paper also validates the proposed architecture and discusses its feasibility.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128011787","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":"Memory-Aware Feedback Scheduling of Control Tasks","authors":"S. Robertz, D. Henriksson, A. Cervin","doi":"10.1109/ETFA.2006.355423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA.2006.355423","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the incorporation of an auto-tuning real-time garbage collector into a feedback-based on-line scheduling system. The studied feedback scheduler is designed to dynamically adjust the sampling periods of a set of controller tasks in order to maximize the overall control performance. In the suggested approach, the memory management overhead is made explicit and taken into account by the feedback scheduler when scheduling the tasks. It is also described how priorities for memory allocations can be used to control the allocation rates of the application threads in order to optimize the trade-off between memory and CPU time usage. A case study, comparing theoretical analysis and simulated results support the feasibility of the approach.","PeriodicalId":431393,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114204333","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}