Comparison of a transformed Matlab/Simulink model into the programming language CFC on different IEC 61131-3 PLC environments

Author

Bayrak, Gokay ; Murr, P.J. ; Ulewicz, Sebastian ; Vogel-Heuser, Birgit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. & Inf. Syst., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Garching, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

In this paper, the structure and the simulation results of a model between Simulink and different PLC environments (integrated development environment) will be compared. The transformation of the simulation model from Simulink into a PLC code, which is compatible to the investigated PLC environments, is realized with a self-developed code generator. Continuous Function Charts (CFC) is used as target language for the PLC environments. The investigated PLC environments are TwinCAT (Beckhoff), PCS7 (Siemens) and PC Worx (Phoenix Contact). For the comparison, a simple speed control model was designed in Simulink. The code transformation and evaluation of the structure and simulation results show, that the PLC environment of Beckhoff has the best accordance in structure with the simulation model in Simulink. However, the PLC environment of Siemens shows the best accordance the simulation results with Simulink.

Keywords

control charts; control engineering computing; production engineering computing; program compilers; programmable controllers; programming languages; Beckhoff; CFC; IEC 61131-3 PLC environments; PC Worx; PCS7; PLC code; Phoenix contact; Siemens; Simulink model; TwinCAT; code evaluation; code transformation; continuous function charts; integrated development environment; investigated PLC environments; programming language; self-developed code generator; simulation model; speed control model; target language; transformed Matlab model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2012 IEEE 17th Conference on

Conference_Location

Krakow

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4735-8

Electronic_ISBN

1946-0740

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2012.6489667

Filename

6489667