PARCS: a parallel/distributed implementation environment for control software execution

Author

Friedrich, Luís Fernando

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Stat., Fed. Univ. of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

fYear

1997

fDate

10-15 Nov 1997

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

72

Abstract

At the present time, one of the main problems in implementing flexible manufacturing industries is the development of the control systems. Part of the problems are assigned to high control software development and maintenance costs. The majority of the difficulties in developing software for control systems are due to the lack of a model which is proper to deal with this kind of system. For instance, models which are being used to develop control systems are based on hierarchical approaches which are sequential and centralized. This paper presents PARCS (PARallel/distributed model for Control Software development), defines the operations used to express the parallelism of control system components, and shows an implementation environment to support the control

Keywords

flexible manufacturing systems; industrial control; parallel programming; PARCS; control software execution; control systems development; flexible manufacturing industries; parallel/distributed implementation environment; parallelism; software development costs; software maintenance costs; Automatic control; Centralized control; Computational modeling; Computer aided manufacturing; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Distributed control; Informatics; Manufacturing systems; Programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science Society, 1997. Proceedings., XVII International Conference of the Chilean

Conference_Location

Valparaiso

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8052-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCCC.1997.636924

Filename

636924