Model-Driven Development of Automation and Control Applications: Modeling and Simulation of Control Sequences. (7th August 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vepsäläinen, Timo; Kuikka, Seppo
• Other Names: Muccini Henry Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Advances in software engineering. Volume 2014(2014)
• Publication Date: 2014-08-07
• Subjects: Software engineering -- Periodicals; Software engineering; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 005.1
• DOI: 10.1155/2014/470201
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-8655

Abstract

Abstract : The scope and responsibilities of control applications are increasing due to, for example, the emergence of industrial internet. To meet the challenge, model-driven development techniques have been in active research in the application domain. Simulations that have been traditionally used in the domain, however, have not yet been sufficiently integrated to model-driven control application development. In this paper, a model-driven development process that includes support for design-time simulations is complemented with support for simulating sequential control functions. The approach is implemented with open source tools and demonstrated by creating and simulating a control system model in closed-loop with a large and complex model of a paper industry process.