The IEC 61499 standard and its semantics

Author

Vyatkin, Valeriy

Author_Institution

Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Volume

3

Issue

4

fYear

2009

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

48

Abstract

The article is structured as follows. In the "System-Level Design for Distributed Automation" section, we give a general introduction to IEC 61499 in terms of its value for the automation systems developer. In the "Elements of IEC 61499 Architecture" section, the basic elements of the IEC 61499 architecture are presented using an illustrative example. The semantic problems of IEC 61499 are outlined in the "Semantic Problems of IEC 61499" section. The "Semantics of a Basic FB" section focuses on the problems and solutions related to the basic function block (FB) behavior. It is followed by the "Semantics of FB Networks" section that discusses semantic problems related to composite FB structures. In the "conclusions" section, we list some open problems.

Keywords

IEC standards; control engineering computing; distributed processing; programmable controllers; IEC 61499 architecture; IEC 61499 semantic problems; IEC 61499 standard; PLC programming languages; basic function block behavior; distributed automation system; system-level design; Automatic control; Communication system control; Computer languages; Design automation; Hardware; IEC standards; Logic design; Logic devices; Programmable control; System-level design;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1932-4529

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIE.2009.934796

Filename

5352482