Towards a OMG DDS communication backbone for factory automation applications

Although a few industrial automation systems have also been implemented with DDS, this standard has not yet gained much significance in factory automation applications for several reasons. One of these reasons is that since DDS is aimed at a broad range of application domains and it may be necessary to provide certain guidelines in order to use it efficiently in factory automation applications by automation engineers. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the types of traffic found in this kind of applications and describing how to configure the QoS parameters DDS provides. It also presents an ongoing case study that illustrates the application of DDS as communication backbone in factory automation applications.