Abstract
Current industry must improve the day-to-day control and industrial communications of its processes in order to bring itself closer to the Industry 4.0 paradigm. To attain these improvements, which aim towards obtaining agile and intelligent manufacturing systems, the IEC-61499 standard is considered to be the main option by many researchers. Despite its benefits, its biggest drawback is the lack of software tools required for an effective design process for distributed control systems. The following work details the implementation of the IEC-61499 standard in low-cost devices using 4DIAC-FORTE for distributed control of a FESTO MPS 200 educational system, by using Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams as a software tool for modeling the function blocks (FBs) of the IEC-61499 standard. This work demonstrates a simple and easy way to create distributed systems.
Highlights
At the industrial level, automatic control of systems or processes is carried out using programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that fulfill a specific assigned function [1]
Using the entire process involved in the development and implementation of an IEC-61131 control system as a starting comparison point, the first benefit that can be appreciated in the new IEC-61499 control solution of the modular system is the integration of an improved and easier development
This limits the number of software tools that a person needs to domain in order to generate a multi-brand distributed control system, focusing the learning time on mastering one specific tool
Summary
At the industrial level, automatic control of systems or processes is carried out using programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that fulfill a specific assigned function [1]. Software tools widely used in the design of computer systems, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), should be employed [6] This language is used to produce an architecture of generic models for the control of industrial processes, which will guide the connection and design of a distributed control system based on FBs. This paper proposes a combination of UML and the IEC-61499 standard.
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