Object oriented software engineering for programmable logical controllers: a successful implementation

Author

Flores, Luis ; Barata, José

Author_Institution

Campus da FCT, IntRoSys, Caparica, Portugal

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

16-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

116

Abstract

Control systems development for the automotive industry is done pretty much the same today as it was 15 years ago. Therefore, the usefulness of a high level structured approach for Control Systems Engineering is undeniable. This paper describes how object-oriented programming (OOP) or the frame paradigm can be used to program PLCs even though using their old fashioned programming abstract model. To prove the validity of the proposal a real industrial implementation is shown.

Keywords

automobile industry; control engineering computing; industrial control; object-oriented programming; programmable controllers; OOP; PLCs; automotive industry; control systems development; control systems engineering; frame paradigm; object-oriented programming; object-oriented software engineering; programmable logical controllers; programming abstract model; real industrial implementation; Automotive engineering; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial control; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Programmable control; Proposals; Software engineering; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ETFA '03. IEEE Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7937-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2003.1247696

Filename

1247696