Abstract
The need of manufacturing industries to adapt to the demand from customers and the volatile market drives the need for digitalization to realize the so-called smart factory. Smart factory, Compared to traditional factories, smart factory needs to possess high flexibility and stability and often has to employ digital twin. Compared to IEC 61131-3 standard used in traditional industrial production, IEC 61499 standard can bring more advantages to meet the realization of Smart Factory, such as flexibility, distribution and event-driven execution. In this paper, we propose a new Virtual Commissioning (VC) architecture for IEC 61499-based control applications. We build an online collaborative VC platform with the help of cloud computing and containerization technologies. Furthermore, we discuss and propose the utilization of soft-PLC containers from different vendors to meet users' commissioning requirements for different hardware configurations. Compared with the traditional offline single-person debugging method, our proposed architecture can improve the flexibility, collaboration and efficiency of control software debugging in a more interactive and collaborative style via the online platform we implemented.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2021 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781665435543 |
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Publication status | Published - 13 Nov 2021 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
Event | Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society - Virtual, online, Toronto, Canada Duration: 13 Oct 2021 → 16 Oct 2021 Conference number: 47 https://ieeeiecon.org/ |
Conference
Conference | Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society |
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Abbreviated title | IECON |
Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Toronto |
Period | 13/10/2021 → 16/10/2021 |
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Keywords
- cloud computing
- containerization
- distributed control application
- IEC 61499
- web