The design of a control software design environment, namely the Integrated Design Notation (IDN) is presented. IDN supports the design, development and implementation of decentralised distributed control systems. A cable extrusion process is targeted as a demonstrator application, where object-orientation technology is expected to facilitate the improvement of extruder control in a distributed environment. The IDN is based on the Unified Modelling Language (UML). A CASE tool supporting UML is integrated with the IDN. The translation to integrate a control software tool (Simulink) and options to generate automatic Java code are described.
Index Terms:
Distributed control, object-oriented technology, process control, real-time systems.
Citation:
D.N. Ramos-Hernandez, P.J. Fleming, S. Bennett, S. Hope, J.M. Bass, and M.J. Baxter, "Process Control Systems Integration Using Object Oriented Technology," tools, pp.148, Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, 2001