Graphical Interface Framework for Control System Environments
Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Industry machines and vehicles are becoming more and more complex and are today often operated through a control system. Such control system must be able to operate in rough environments. It is also becoming more and more common that these systems make use of a display to present and control the system. In such case a graphical user interface (GUI) will be built. Controller Development System (CoDeSys) is a development environment platform for control systems. It handles development of automation as well as GUIs. Today CoDeSys exists in two versions, CoDeSys V2 and CoDeSys V3. This thesis conducts a qualitative evaluation and comparison of these to platforms. The evaluation covers the basic functionality of the two platforms, the development environments, how custom elements can be built and integrated, and a performance test. The focus of the evaluation is put on how custom element development is done and the performance test. The comparison shows that both platforms support development of custom elements, but also that the newer version of CoDeSys taken the process one step further. As for performance the result shows that unless GUIs are built in certain ways the working load for the control system will be too high.
Author: Jonas Lindholm
Language: English
Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W67812236