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Current automation systems need to be able to cope with the continuously changing requirements of the applications in terms of complexity, extensibility and dynamism. To match these challenging requirements, modern automation systems need to incorporate new software engineering techniques. These techniques must provide to the automation systems additional abilities such as diagnosis and reconfiguration...
In this paper an ontology driven approach to the design of control systems, in particular, control applications of IEC 61499 standard is proposed. The source ontology is an ontological description of control object (plant) while the target ontology is an ontological description of a control system implemented using an appropriate programming language. For the ontologies transformation an extension...
The integration of package units in a SCADA or DCS involves considerable manual effort. Various aspects of automation such as faceplates, states of sequences or interlocks have to be reproduced for the visualization and management of the package unit in the master control system. The integration effort can be reduced using existing technologies, which could also be extended to a modular plug-and-produce...
Field devices are offering more and more functionality to automation systems. This leads to increasing complexity of such devices, to more engineering efforts, and requires more integration tests. Rapid Prototyping is an accepted approach for reducing engineering efforts. Referring to the existing software field device “Generic Device” the paper presents a semi-automatic approach for field device...
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