Gateway for Profibus communication between a PLC and embedded system

Author

Zuluaga Botero, Juan Gonzalo ; Herrera Cuartas, Jorge Aurelio ; Serna Garces, Sergio Ignacio

Author_Institution

Group Autom. Electron. & Comput. Sci., Inst. Tecnol. Metropolitano Medellin, Medellin, Colombia

fYear

2014

fDate

17-19 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, It proposes a simple., but effective and economical Gateway to connect a Siemens PLC, with an embedded device. This design allows a reliable Profibus communication with differential voltage, having a microcontroller working as slave. The experimental tests show that standard chip MAX485 does not guarantee the connection compared it with the proposed Gateway and by means of signal analysis, errors are identified. Through a processing of the received signal by the embedded device and the Profibus frames determine the parameters that avoid errors and conflicts in communication where embedded device performs signal processing and retransmits to PLC. This Gateway can be used with others field devices due analog electronic circuit provides correct levels voltage and impedances coupling with which an excellent behavior is obtained.

Keywords

embedded systems; field buses; microcontrollers; programmable controllers; MAX485; Profibus communication gateway; Siemens PLC; analog electronic circuit; embedded device; embedded system; microcontroller; signal analysis; signal processing; Couplings; Logic gates; Microcontrollers; Protocols; Reliability; Sensors; Standards; Communication; Embedded Device; Microcontroller; PLC; Profibus; Signal analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image, Signal Processing and Artificial Vision (STSIVA), 2014 XIX Symposium on

Conference_Location

Armenia

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/STSIVA.2014.7010186

Filename

7010186