Building Fault Tolerant Industrial Applications Based on IEC 61499

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Mário de Sousa (Author) FEUP; Christos Chrysoulas (Author) Other; Aydin E. Homay (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: FAIM 2015

Pages: 1-8

The International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM)

University of Wolverhampton, UK, 23 a 26 Junho, 2015

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): IEC 61499 defines an execution model for industrial control applications that may be distributed among several devices. In such a heterogeneous environment partial failures are likely to occur. In order to avoid probable system malfunction and breakdowns, the authors propose a framework where the concept of replication may be applied to the IEC 61499 execution model. This framework takes special care in guaranteeing that all replicas maintain synchronised internal state, and reduces network overload by using the timed-messages protocol. This paper presents an example application of how the replication framework may be used in a real-world scenario.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8