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Proposing Bus Adapter Connections in IEC 61499

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper proposes an extension to IEC 61499 architecture to better support flexibility and reconfigurability of automation systems while reducing communication overhead. The extension concerns adapter connections between function blocks. It aims at improving the performance of popular "one-line engineering" design pattern. The current adapter connections are supporting one-to-one links between function blocks, through which a bi-direction flow of events and data takes place. The proposed extension, called bus, allows many-to-many connections, i.e., several function blocks can be connected to several function blocks sending and receiving events and data simultaneously. Before implementing the extension by means of compiler and editor, it was prototyped using an existing means of IEC 61499, as a composite function block with several inputs - adapter sockets and outputs - adapter plugs. The prototyping shows feasibility of the proposed extension.

Source: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

DOI: 10.1109/iecon55916.2024.10905348

Authors: Pranay Jhunjhunwala, Valeriy Vyatkin

Institution: Aalto University

Language: English

Topic: Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems

Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

Funder: HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme