Title :
MatPLC-the truly open automation controller
Author_Institution :
Fac. de Engenharia, Porto Univ., Portugal
Abstract :
The MatPLC is an international project to create and distribute a program similar to a PLC (programmable logic controller) for POSIX operating systems, and licensed under the GNU Public License. Considerable effort has been put into designing a robust and scalable system, which includes novel features and capabilities not found in standard PLCs.
Keywords :
SCADA systems; Unix; programmable controllers; synchronisation; GNU Public License; MatPLC; SCADA; configuration library; open automation controller; period library; programmable logic controller; robust system; state library; supervisory control and data acquisition; synchronization library; Application software; Automatic control; Automation; Hardware; Licenses; Open source software; Operating systems; Programmable control; SCADA systems; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
IECON 02 [Industrial Electronics Society, IEEE 2002 28th Annual Conference of the]
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7474-6
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2002.1185327
