The use of IEC 61131-3 to enhance PLC control and Matlab/Simulink process simulations

Author

Pereira, A. ; Lima, C. ; Martins, J.F.

Author_Institution

FCT/UNL, CTS/UNINOVA, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2011

fDate

27-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1243

Lastpage

1247

Abstract

This paper proposes a IEC 61131-3 compliant translation methodology to emulate any PLC control program in the Matlab/Simulink environment. The developed methodology translates the PLC control program into Matlab/Simulink software language through the use of the IEC 61131-3 standard. Any IEC 61131-3 compliant PLC control program is translated into a Matlab/Simulink compatible m-file, within the Matlab/Simulink environment, containing the correspondent PLC control program translation. This file will be called as a Matlab function, within the Matlab/Simulink environment, and will control the model of the industrial process as long as the simulation runs. For the moment, this tool is being evaluated as a teaching tool for process automation classes.

Keywords

IEC standards; control engineering computing; process control; production engineering computing; program interpreters; programmable controllers; IEC 61131-3 compliant translation methodology; IEC 61131-3 standard; Matlab function; Matlab-Simulink software language; PLC control program; industrial process control; process automation; programmable logic controller; Automation; Education; IEC standards; Industries; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; Process control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Gdansk

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9310-4

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2011.5984336

Filename

5984336