Title :
Research on EPA system integration based on FDT
Author :
Renjie Huang ; Feng Liu
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput.&Inf. Sci., Southwest Univ., Chongqing
Abstract :
EPA (Ethernet for plant automation) is an industrial Ethernet standard constituted by Chinese. On the basis of studying the system integration methods in EPA system and field device tool (FDT) technology, this paper presents a system integration model based on FDT for EPA system. Then the implementations of EPA communication device type manager (DTM) and device DTM are discussed in detail. Finally, the system integration model mentioned above is verified in FDT framework applications via developing EPA communication DTM and device DTMs. The result shows that EPA intelligent instruments of different manufactures can be integrated into a control system via communication DTM and device DTMs, and they can be maintained and managed in a unified platform. Moreover seamless integration between EPA system and other field bus systems can be achieved according to the solution presented above.
Keywords :
computerised instrumentation; control engineering computing; distributed control; field buses; industrial control; local area networks; EPA communication DTM; EPA intelligent instruments; EPA system integration model; Ethernet; FDT technology; control system; device DTM; device type manager; distributed field network control system; field bus systems; field device tool; industrial Ethernet standard; plant automation; Automatic control; Communication system control; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Ethernet networks; IEC standards; Instruments; Manufacturing industries; XML;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics and Applications, 2008. ICIEA 2008. 3rd IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1717-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1718-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICIEA.2008.4582900
