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Challenges in software development for automation and control have increased because of various reasons, including the size of applications and competition within the industry. A potential solution could be the use of a model-driven engineering approach to facilitate the development process and design information flow. Despite the wide interests towards model-based techniques in the automation domain,...
The successful use of IEC 61499 in the industry requires software development processes that utilize the standard's support for best practices of software engineering, such as CORFU. The adoption of such a process would involve upgrading existing practices, tacit knowledge and legacy software, which constitute much of the core competence and essential assets of a company. This paper reports on a two...
Many recent contributions in the field of embedded, networked control and collaborative manufacturing, such as dynamic reconfiguration, are based on the IEC 61499 standard, which defines a general-purpose architecture for control applications. The industrial acceptance of the standard remains unclear at this time, largely because there is no obvious way to apply domain-specific, industrially accepted...
The function block (FB) construct has been adopted by recent IEC standards for the design of reusable, interoperable, distributed control applications. In this paper, an approach to exploit the benefits of this paradigm in batch process control is presented. A hybrid approach that integrates the FB model with the Unified Modeling Language is exploited and customized to the batch domain taking as starting...
The IEC 61499 gives developers considerable freedom and offers several features that support reuse. Although this can help the adoption of the standard into an organization's development process, the range of design decisions can also harm the reusability of software, if components are developed with incompatible design principles. Guidelines are needed, but the unique backgrounds and market positions...
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