Generating an Object Oriented IEC 61131-3 software product line architecture from SysML

Author

Papakonstantinou, Nikolaos ; Sierla, Seppo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom. & Syst. Technol., Aalto Univ., Aalto, Finland

fYear

2013

fDate

10-13 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The software product line has emerged as a successful paradigm for offering a broad range of customer options with decreased development time and cost. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used for architecture design and object oriented languages are used for implementation. In industrial automation, targets programmed with function block languages need to be supported, so the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is appropriate for architecture design. In this paper, the SysML block definition diagram has been extended to support software product line architecture design. The XMI data format is used as source for mapping the architecture to Object Oriented IEC 61131-3 software in the PLCopen XML format. The methodology and supporting tools are demonstrated on a mobile elevating work platform product line.

Keywords

IEEE standards; Unified Modeling Language; XML; functional languages; object-oriented programming; software engineering; PLCopen XML data format; SysML block definition diagram; Systems Modeling Language; UML; Unified Modeling Language; architecture design; function block languages; industrial automation; mobile elevating work platform product line; object oriented IEC 61131-3 software product line architecture; object oriented languages; Automation; Computer architecture; IEC standards; Object oriented modeling; Software; Unified modeling language; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2013 IEEE 18th Conference on

Conference_Location

Cagliari

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0862-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2013.6648057

Filename

6648057