Proposing and Prototyping an Extension to the Adapter Concept in the IEC 61499 Standard

Abstract

Component-Design Architecture has been in demand based on the growing needs for modularity and flexibility in the automation industry. IEC 61499 standard, a component-based automation architecture, provides various tools and techniques for automation developers to accommodate the need for flexibility in automation sequences. However, the adapter concept, one of the significant features of the standard, remains untouched and developed since its inclusion in the standard and lacks the utilization of its true potential. In this work, we enhance the adapter concept by proposing the addition of logic into them. This proposition advances the adapter technology and gives the automation standard more capabilities to support higher levels of modularization without the increase of applications complexity.

Integración de FACTORY IO y 4DIAC-FORTE para la validación de software de control en la norma IEC 61499

“…Las características antes mencionadas hacen que el IEC 61499 esté siendo actualmente el centro de atención de numerosos trabajos para su uso en diferentes problemas de automatización y control industrial. En los últimos años numerosos trabajo de investigación abordan la implementación de algoritmos de control usando dicho estándar, ver por ejemplo [8,10,9,6,2].…”