Towards an Object-Oriented extension for IEC 61131

Thramboulidis, Kleanthis

doi:10.1109/etfa.2012.6489673

Cited by 9 publications

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“…Contrary to the approaches presented in [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11], the proposal presented in this paper by the authors addresses a more practical approach, which can be summarized as follows:…”

Section: Automatic Translation Of Plc Programsmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Nevertheless, there is a growing trend toward assuring reusability of PLC programs through the implementation of an object approach: programs and function blocks are designed as objects that can be exchanged and reused. To do so, some authors propose the use of the existing object oriented facilities present in the IEC 61131-3 standard ( [6][7][8]), propose object-oriented extensions of this standard ( [9], [10]), or even complete frameworks for PLC program development ( [11], [12]). …”

Section: The Iec-61131-3 Standardmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Automatic translation of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) control programs in packaging machinery

Sapena-Bañó

Puche-Panadero

Perez-Vazquez

et al. 2014

2014 9th International Microsystems, Packaging, Assembly and Circuits Technology Conference (IMPACT)

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Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) are key components in modern packaging automation systems. But their success has led to the presence of a broad range of brands and models, each one with its own and unique features, but also with its own environment for software development. This situation has some major drawbacks: it is very difficult to upgrade an installation by changing the PLC, maintenance costs rise with the multiplicity of PLC brands in a given factory, and production parameters must be changed when the production is changed to a machine with a different PLC.In this paper, a first step is presented to address such a situation: instead of developing the same program from scratch for each different PLC brand, a unique program is stored using the PLCopen XML standard. When the program must be ported to a given PLC, an automatic tool, the postprocessor, generates the final code that has to be downloaded to the target PLC. In this paper the PLC tool adapter is presented and an example is shown for three of the major PLC brands present in the packaging industry such as Siemens, Schneider Electric and ABB.

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Section: Automatic Translation Of Plc Programsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Section: The Iec-61131-3 Standardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatic translation of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) control programs in packaging machinery

Sapena-Bañó

Puche-Panadero

Perez-Vazquez

et al. 2014

2014 9th International Microsystems, Packaging, Assembly and Circuits Technology Conference (IMPACT)

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“…However, as it is claimed in [28] most of these works do not take into account the OO aspects of IEC 61131 in the direction of extending it to support the OO paradigm and this has resulted to inefficient proposals regarding the OO extension of the IEC 61131 model.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A cyber–physical system-based approach for industrial automation systems

Thramboulidis

2015

Computers in Industry

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Abstract-Industrial automation systems (IASs) are commonly developed using the languages defined by the IEC 61131 standard and are executed on PLCs. Their software part is considered after the development and integration of mechanics and electronics. This approach narrows the solution space for software and is considered inadequate to address the complexity of today's systems. In this paper, a system-based approach for the development of IASs is adopted. A framework is described to refine the UML model of the software part, which is extracted from the SysML system model, and get the implementation code. Two implementation alternatives are considered to exploit PLCs but also the recent deluge of embedded boards in the market. For PLC targets, the new version of IEC 61131 that supports Object-Orientation is adopted, while Java is used for embedded boards. The case study was developed as a lab exercise for teaching the various technologies that address challenges in the domain of cyber-physical systems where Internet of Things (IoT ) would be the glue regarding their cyber interfaces

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“…Recent works have applied OOP concepts to develop PLC programs [8]- [12] through the use of FB. Besides, several research groups have used the UML and XML languages in order to generate PLC code that implements OOP approaches such as abstraction and general programming [13], [14].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A new multilevel approach for Programmable Logical Controller (PLCs)

Sapena-Bañó¹,

Burriel-Valencia²,

Martínez-Román³

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT)

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Most of automation systems in industry are based on Programmable Logical Controllers (PLCs) due to its reliability and immunity to industrial environments. Besides, PLCs's flexibility and capabilities have allowed human to automate a huge number of industrial processes. In this paper a new multilevel graphical and modular approach is proposed for programming industrial PLCss. Traditional programming drawbacks, such as impossibility of exchange code or the programmer dependence, are well-known. For solve these problems, the paradigm proposed in this paper exploits several object oriented features, improving the re-use of code, develops objects to be used in a plug and play way understandable by so many developers. Hence this framework reduce the PLC brand and programmer dependence.

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Towards an Object-Oriented extension for IEC 61131

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Automatic translation of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) control programs in packaging machinery

Automatic translation of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) control programs in packaging machinery

A cyber–physical system-based approach for industrial automation systems

A new multilevel approach for Programmable Logical Controller (PLCs)

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