Design of IEC 61131-3 function blocks using SysML

Author

Chiron, Fabien ; Kouiss, Khalid

Author_Institution

Blaise-Pascal Univ. of Clermont-Ferrand, Aubiere

fYear

2007

fDate

27-29 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

UML is almost inevitable when dealing with software designing and intends to be extended to cover many different disciplines. At the same time, control and automation designers integrate further object oriented concepts in their traditional programming behaviors in particular with function blocks. Whereas UML was not adapted to model these IEC 61131 compliant items, an important extension called SysML has been proposed. This paper deals with evaluating the new modeling abilities of this language according to programmable logical controllers specific programming rules.

Keywords

CAD; Unified Modeling Language; control engineering computing; object-oriented programming; programmable controllers; IEC 61131-3 function block design; SysML; UML; automation design; control design; object oriented concepts; programmable logical controllers; programming behaviors; programming rules; software design; Automatic control; Automatic programming; Design automation; Functional programming; IEC standards; Logic programming; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Software design; Unified modeling language; Control and Automation; Function Blocks; IEC 61131-3; MDA; SysML; UML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control & Automation, 2007. MED '07. Mediterranean Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1282-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1282-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MED.2007.4433695

Filename

4433695