PLC Communication using PROFINET: Experimental Results and Analysis

Author

Antolovic, M. ; Acton, K. ; Kalappa, N. ; Mantri, S. ; Parrott, J. ; Luntz, J. ; Moyne, J. ; Tilbury, D.

Author_Institution

Eng. Res. Center for RMS, Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI

fYear

2006

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

PROFINET is the industrial Ethernet standard devised by PROFIBUS International for "Ethernet on the plant floor". PROFINET allows to implement a comprehensive communications solution on Ethernet which includes peer-to-peer communication between controllers, distributed I/O, machine safety, motion control and data acquisition. In this paper an analysis is conducted on the peer-to-peer interlocking performance based on PROFINET specification. Tests were performed to determine the performance of the peer-to-peer communication mechanism, to evaluate the impact of switches on the system, and to measure the impact of data size on peer-to-peer communication performance. The paper summarizes the test results.

Keywords

local area networks; peer-to-peer computing; production engineering computing; programmable controllers; telecommunication standards; PLC communication; PROFINET specification; data acquisition; distributed I/O; industrial Ethernet standard; machine safety; motion control; peer-to-peer communication performance; peer-to-peer interlocking performance; plant floor; Communication system control; Data acquisition; Distributed control; Ethernet networks; Motion control; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Programmable control; Safety; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2006. ETFA '06. IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9758-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2006.355195

Filename

4178310