A Real-Time-Linux-Based Framework for Model-Driven Engineering in Control and Automation

作者：Doukas George^*; Thramboulidis Kleanthis

来源：IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2011, 58(3): 914-924.

DOI：10.1109/TIE.2009.2029584

• Function-block (FB) model
• industrial automation
• model-driven engineering (MDE)
• real-time (RT) Linux

Model-driven engineering (MDE) is proposed as the next revolution in embedded-system development. It is a promising paradigm that provides the developer the abstraction level required to focus on the specific application and not on the underlying computing environments. Real-time (RT) Linux variants constitute a mature and stable platform that can be considered a strong candidate for RT applications in the control and automation domain. In this paper, a framework for the MDE of industrial automation systems is presented. This framework exploits the following: 1) the function block, a well-known paradigm in the industrial automation domain, to provide the control engineer with the ability to construct its systems as aggregations of existing components and 2) the real-time Linux to execute the automatically synthesized executable. A prototype runtime environment is described, and a laboratory example application using a robotic arm is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed framework. Performance measurements are very promising, even for hard RT control applications.

• 出版日期2011-3