Industrial Smart Transmitters Modeling for PC-based Instruments Development Platform

A PC-based fleldbus simulation platform has been designed to be used as a test-bed for distributed control systems development. The FBSIMU (Foundation Fieldbus Function Blocks Simulator) tool can be used for tests via real time procedures some fundamental aspects of distributed control network and smart transmitters. The full platform has been written using LabVlEW due to its graphical interface and rapid development time. The simulator user interface is similar to a typical industrial fieldbus system interface and its operation configuration is fully flexible, experiments can be conducted for different transmitter´s configurations, physical communication parameters, medium access control mechanisms and controller and acquisition algorithms. This extended summary describes the process of industrial smart transmitters modeling and proposes the integration of such models into the FBSIMU development platform.