Distributed and reconfigurable control of lower level machines in automatic production line

Author

Xuemei, Huang

Author_Institution

Eng. Training Center Harbin Eng., Univ. Harbin, Harbin, China

fYear

2010

Firstpage

2339

Lastpage

2344

Abstract

Lower level machines of production line are mainly controlled by PLC and CNC. Reconfiguration control mechanism and implementation of these two kinds controller have its own way due to different characteristics of individual control domain. Combining them totally in one production line manufacturing environment to form reconfigurable control architecture in system level is focused on. First reconfigurable control for single PLC and CNC controller is studied. Transformation rules from IEC 61131 standard to IEC 61499 reference structure and STEP-NC compliant reconfigurable numerical controller are respectively studied to implement reconfigurable control for single PLC and CNC based machines. And on this basis an extensive IEC 61499 compliant software architecture for reconfigurable control of lower level machines in networked manufacturing of production line is proposed by considering systematic reconfiguration requirement and philosophy in production line environment.

Keywords

IEC standards; computerised numerical control; distributed control; machine control; production control; programmable controllers; CNC; IEC 61131 standard; IEC 61499 reference structure; PLC; STEP-NC; automatic production line; distributed control; lower level machine; reconfigurable control; Computer architecture; Computer numerical control; Data models; IEC standards; Machine tools; Software; PLC; STEP-NC controller; automatic production line; lower level production machine; reconfigurable control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA), 2010 8th World Congress on

Conference_Location

Jinan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6712-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCICA.2010.5554294

Filename

5554294