Communication Framework for Networked Automation and Control Systems

01.05.2008 - 30.04.2010
Forschungsförderungsprojekt
Emerging industrial embedded automation and measurement systems are composed out of strongly intervening but physically separated subsystems. They cooperate tightly together to perform control and measurement tasks. Such systems range from sensor-guided cooperating robots, automatic guided vehicles for logistic systems, to coordinated real-time measurement tasks and agile automation systems. Subcomponents of such systems share multiple distributed control and measurement loops each of which may have diverse timing and localisation. In parallel sporadic events are conveyed with vanishing jitter across the same network infrastructure. The requirements for communication have an important impact to the overall system behaviour and therefore they must be considered together with control and measurement tasks. An integrative approach for the whole system engineering is still missing. Therefore FRONTICS aims at automatic configuration of heterogeneous and hybrid real-time communication networks. It develops a real-time communication infrastructure for distributed automation, control and measurement systems ¿ which is required for a real breakthrough of networked and embedded automation systems. The project¿s main innovations will be the development of pioneering technologies, methods and engineering approaches for implementing and operating the described class of networked and embedded automation systems. Project results will allow cost-efficient building and configuring of these new strongly intervening automation and measurement equipment. Within the project FRONTICS, the developed embedded configuration technology will be applied and validated on laser tracker guided closely cooperating high precision antenna positioning systems for the measurement of the radiation/emission characteristics of antennas for aerospace applications.

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Institut

Contract/collaboration

  • EADS Astrium GmbH
  • AlpinaTec Technical Products GmbH
  • kirchner SOFT GmbH

Grant funds

  • FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Cognitive and adaptive Automation and Robotics: 100%

Schlagwörter

DeutschEnglisch
verteilte Steuerungssystemdistributed control system
IEC 61499IEC 61499
Kommunicationsmodellecommunication models

Externe Partner_innen

  • FH OÖ Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH
  • PROFACTOR Produktionsforschungs GmbH

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