Semantic Integration of Plug-and-Play Software Components for Industrial Edges Based on Microservices

Abstract

The industrial cyber-physical system enables collaboration between distributed nodes across industrial clouds and edge devices. Flexibility and interoperability could be enhanced significantly by introducing the service-oriented architecture to industrial edge devices. From the industrial edge computing perspective, software components shall be dynamically composed across heterogeneous edge devices to perform various functionalities. In this paper, a knowledge-driven Microservice-based architecture to enable plug-and-play software components is proposed for industrial edges. These software components can be dynamically configured based on the orchestration of microservices with the support of the knowledge base and the reasoning process. These semantically enhanced plug-and-play microservices could provide rapid online reconfiguration without any programming efforts. The use of the plug-and-play software components is demonstrated by an assembly line example. INDEX TERMS Service-oriented architecture, industrial automation, IEC 61499 function blocks, plug and play, microservices, interoperability, REST API, SQWRL, OWL.

A Generic Plug & Produce System Composed of Semantic OPC UA Skills

“…Other approaches based on IEC 61499 function blocks use custom communication protocols for the connection of components [24], [25]. In [26], a set of services for a serviceoriented architecture based on OPC UA is presented.…”

Component-Based Microservices for Flexible and Scalable Automation of Industrial Bioprocesses

“…To consider these aspects, we mainly Microservices are both an architectural style and a way of programming software. With microservices, applications are broken down into their smallest and most mutually independent elements [4], [5], [6], [7] and [8]. Microservices are separate entities that work together to perform the same tasks, which has enabled the flexibility and scalability of industrial software [9], [10].…”

“…Microservices are separate entities that work together to perform the same tasks, which has enabled the flexibility and scalability of industrial software [9], [10]. One of the most relevant works due to its relation with this work is [6], for its plug-andplay software components and microservices-based application construction approach, however, its main focus is on achieving dynamic reconfiguration for industrial edge devices, which, are generally very important aspects of assembly lines in the manufacturing industry. Some recent works on industrial cyber-physical systems, adopting the supervisory control model, have been published [11], [12].…”

La vigilancia científica como apoyo a la gestión educativa. Un análisis de la formación en Automatización Industrial.

“…Sistemas ciberfísicos: los sistemas de automatización están orientados al cumplimiento de un objetivo, el cual ser debe realizar para garantizar confiabilidad y seguridad en los procesos (Sinha et al, 2019). En la actualidad se están integrando los sistemas ciberfísicos, los cuales consisten en la integración de sistemas de computación con dispositivos físicos (Leitão et al, 2016), esto representa un cambio de paradigma que lleva a la automatización industrial a enfrentar una serie de retos, como lo es la programación orientada a servicios (Espí-Beltrán et al, 2017); la integración con la computación en la nube (Dai et al, 2019;Espí-Beltrán et al, 2017) y el control distribuido de procesos de acuerdo con el estándar IEC-61499 (Malik et al, 2018).…”

“…Redes inalámbricas de uso industrial (Gungor y Hancke, 2009), (Petersen y Carlsen, 2011), (Willig, 2008) Redes de sensores inalámbricos (Queiroz et al, 2017) Control distribuido de procesos (Basile et al, 2013), (Malik et al, 2018) Sistemas ciberfísicos (Leitão et al, 2016) Internet de las cosas (Nikoukar et al, 2018) Computación en la nube (Dai et al, 2019;Espí-Beltrán et al, 2017) programación orientada en servicios (Dai et al, 2015), (Espí-Beltrán et al, 2017) Seguridad de los sistemas SCADA basados en IoT IIoT con asistencia en la nube (Sajid et al, 2016) Trá co de datos: seguridad, control y monitoreo (Farag et al, 2019) la posibilidad de articularse en proyectos con la Universidad del Cauca y la Universidad Antonio Nariño, identificadas al filtrar las instituciones y autores para Colombia, específicamente con líderes de los grupos de investigación Automática Industrial, al que pertenece el ingeniero Óscar Amaury Rojas Alvarado, uno de los autores que más publicaciones ha realizado sobre el tema; asimismo, con el Grupo de Investigación GEPRO de la Universidad Antonio Nariño, con su líder Mario Enrique Duarte González y con el ingeniero Luis Alberto Cruz Salazar, quienes viene trabajando y publicando en temas relacionados con los intereses del Centro de Automatización Industrial.…”