Paper Info
Title
A Real-Time-Linux-Based Framework for Model-Driven Engineering in Control and Automation
Abstract
Model-driven engineering (MDE) is proposed as the next revolution in embedded-system development. It is a promising paradigm that provides the developer the abstraction level required to focus on the specific application and not on the underlying computing environments. Real-time (RT) Linux variants constitute a mature and stable platform that can be considered a strong candidate for RT applications in the control and automation domain. In this paper, a framework for the MDE of industrial automation systems is presented. This framework exploits the following: 1) the function block, a well-known paradigm in the industrial automation domain, to provide the control engineer with the ability to construct its systems as aggregations of existing components and 2) the real-time Linux to execute the automatically synthesized executable. A prototype runtime environment is described, and a laboratory example application using a robotic arm is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed framework. Performance measurements are very promising, even for hard RT control applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/TIE.2009.2029584
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Linux,control engineering computing,embedded systems,factory automation,industrial control,model-based reasoning,control engineer,embedded system,industrial automation system,model driven engineering,real time Linux based framework,robotic arm,Function-block (FB) model,industrial automation,model-driven engineering (MDE),real-time (RT) Linux
Robotic arm,Totally integrated automation,Model-driven architecture,Model-based reasoning,Automation,Automatic control,Engineering,Abstraction layer,Embedded system,Executable
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
58
3
0278-0046
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
1.25
22
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
G. Doukas1567.23
Kleanthis Thramboulidis229338.13