Corba for control systems

A methodology based on distributed object-oriented technologies for providing remote access to industrial plants

“…A detailed study about the role of distributed objectoriented architectures in automation may be found in Sanz and Alonso (2001) and Krassi (2001). These works conclude that distributed object-oriented technologies are becoming increasingly accepted because they provide better mechanisms to manage the complexity of distributed applications.…”

A novel object-oriented environment for distributed process control systems

“…The IDN is based on an object-oriented technology (UML). Sanz and Alonso (2001) described how OO technology is becoming the technology of choice to build complex real-time systems because it provides better mechanisms for handling complexity. In addition, OO technology facilitates flexibility, adaptability and reusability of the developed software objects.…”

“…The basic technology used to implement control systems is software technology: however, exploiting software flexibility increases complexity which, in turn, increases the probability of failure (Sanz & Alonso, 2001). This is exacerbated by a lack of software tools to support all development lifecycle phases: simulation/modelling, development and implementation.…”

A time-triggered data distribution service for FTT-CORBA

“…That is why the introduction of middleware specifications that have been successfully used in other domains, such as CORBA [2,3], ICE [4], OPC [5], Web Services [6] and DDS [7,8] may simplify the creation of distributed industrial applications. Note that these middleware specifications are implemented as an additional layer over the transport layer of the TCP/IP stack to hide low-level programming details.…”