Towards an Object-Oriented extension for IEC 61131

Author

Thramboulidis, Kleanthis

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece

fYear

2012

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The IEC 61131 has been successfully used for many years in the industrial automation domain. IEC 61499 was defined to better handle complexity and increase modularity and reusability in the development process, but it failed on its objective. The extension of the IEC 61131 that supports the Object Oriented paradigm is considered today as the most promising solution to address new requirements and lead to a more productive development process. In this paper, the upcoming version of the IEC 61131 and mainly its extension to the OO paradigm is analyzed with the intention to identify defects and propose solutions. The approach adopted in this extension is quite similar to the one of C++, i.e., a mixing of procedural and OO paradigms. This has advantages and dis-advantages for the developer.

Keywords

C++ language; IEC standards; computational complexity; factory automation; object-oriented methods; production engineering computing; C++ approach; IEC 61131; IEC 61499; OO paradigm; development process modularity; development process reusability; industrial automation domain; object-oriented extension; productive development process;

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.2012.6489673

Filename

6489673