Paper Info
Title
Assessment of a Flexible Architecture for Distributed Control
Abstract
Production pipelines of manufactory industries present several machines and robots in which the movements of interpolated axes are managed by computerized numerical controls (CNCs). These are typically synchronized with several other simpler actuators along the pipeline of production. CNCs have to be flexible, easily expandable, and reusable, when pipelines of production are frequently reconfigured to realize different arranged pipelines with different technical requirements. In this paper, the assessment of a flexible CNC for such reconfigurable pipelines is presented. The analysis has been focused on defining objective metrics that can be applied for assessing performance and feasibility of distributed controls for pipelines. The method proposed has been applied on the distributed control architecture defined in the MUPAAC ESPRIT HPCN (Multi Processor Architecture for Automatic Control, High Performance Computer Networking of the European Commission). MUPAAC architecture and prototype has been assessed in order to identify the critical configurations and the limits of the architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1023/A:1023853106207
Programming and Computer Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
high performance computer networking,flexible architecture,mupaac architecture,different technical requirement,mupaac esprit hpcn,control architecture,multi processor architecture,production pipeline,flexible cnc,automatic control,european commission,processor architecture
Pipeline transport,Architecture,Factory,Multi processor,Computer science,Automatic control,Real-time computing,Theoretical computer science,Robot,Actuator,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
3
1608-3261
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
P. Bellini114413.33
M. Buonopane220.87
P. Nesi318625.96