Title :
SICODI: a configurable real-time distributed control system
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Eng. & Autom. Control, Valladolid Univ.
Abstract :
Distributed control systems (DCS) have been, in the last years, the focus of some proposed and de facto standardizations. The paper describes the configuration aspects of continuous and discrete event control in a DCS implementation called SICODI, and the degree of integration between them. The communication properties when SICODI takes part in a training simulator are presented, and the communication level between the local control units (LCU) of the DCS and their main concepts are outlined. Finally, the monitoring configuration is described and some conclusions and future work pointed out
Keywords :
computer based training; computerised control; continuous time systems; digital simulation; discrete event systems; distributed control; distributed processing; real-time systems; DCS implementation; SICODI; communication level; communication properties; configurable real time distributed control system; configuration aspects; continuous control; de facto standardization; discrete event control; local control units; monitoring configuration; training simulator; Automatic control; Communication system control; Control systems; Distributed control; Industrial training; Object oriented modeling; Operating systems; Real time systems; Standardization; Sugar industry;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 1999. Proceedings. ETFA '99. 1999 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5670-5
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.1999.813134
