<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In the field of process control engineering, network-based systems enable extensive, flexible and scalable applications in industrial automation and control. However, network-induced problems are influencing the stability and performance and they are introducing constraints in the system design and operation. While most of the existing design methodologies are searching for the specific solution within the domain of the control theory, we propose the comprehensive architectural approach that addresses wide range of the network-related issues and copes with them in the effective way. Presented solution combines several architectural styles encapsulating the actuating, sensing and control functionality into the unified service-oriented components, while the data transport is supported through event-triggered distributed middleware components. Given architectural approach decouples the design of process control functionality from the properties of the control network infrastructure. The effectiveness of the proposed solution is verified through the analysis of the system operation in the given case-study.</p></abstract>

In the field of process control engineering, network-based systems enable extensive, flexible and scalable applications in industrial automation and control. However, network-induced problems are influencing the stability and performance and they are introducing constraints in the system design and operation. While most of the existing design methodologies are searching for the specific solution within the domain of the control theory, we propose the comprehensive architectural approach that addresses wide range of the network-related issues and copes with them in the effective way. Presented solution combines several architectural styles encapsulating the actuating, sensing and control functionality into the unified service-oriented components, while the data transport is supported through event-triggered distributed middleware components. Given architectural approach decouples the design of process control functionality from the properties of the control network infrastructure. The effectiveness of the proposed solution is verified through the analysis of the system operation in the given case-study.

Architectural approach to cope with network-induced problems in network control systems design

Distributed Measurement and Control Laboratory

Journal of Electrical Engineering

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In the field of process control engineering, network-based systems enable extensive, flexible and scalable applications in industrial automation and control....

Architectural approach to cope with network-induced problems in network control systems design

Published Online: Sep 19, 2018

Page range: 270 - 278

Received: Jun 26, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2018-0038

Keywords
networked control systems, communication constraints, service-oriented architecture, predictive control, time-awareness

© 2018 Ivan Popović et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Architectural approach to cope with network-induced problems in network control systems design

Published Online: Sep 19, 2018

Page range: 270 - 278

Received: Jun 26, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jee-2018-0038

Keywordsnetworked control systems, communication constraints, service-oriented architecture, predictive control, time-awareness

© 2018 Ivan Popović et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
networked control systems, communication constraints, service-oriented architecture, predictive control, time-awareness