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IEC 61499 - Reference Model For Distributed Automation

IEC 61499 is the newly adopted standard for distributed control systems. It describes architectures and models for distributed systems and is not primary considered being a programming methodology. This book discusses real-time execution of the models defined in the standard with a closer look at predictable, event-triggered real-time systems.

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IEC 61499 - Reference Model For Distributed Automation

IEC 61499 is the newly adopted standard for distributed control systems. It describes architectures and models for distributed systems and is not primary considered being a programming methodology. This book discusses real-time execution of the models defined in the standard with a closer look at predictable, event-triggered real-time systems.

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IEC 61499 - Reference Model for Distributed Automation
The IEC 61499 standard describes architectures and models for distributed systems and is not primary
considered being a programming methodology . This standard provides a set of models for the use of
Function Blocks (FB) in Industrial Process Measurement and Control Systems (IPMCS). These FBs
encapsulate user-defined algorithms to perform different tasks (e.g. measurement of temperature, control
of a conveyor belt, etc.). The invocation of the algorithms processing data is triggered by events. Therefore
one IEC 61499 FB consists of two main layers one event layer and one data layer. Furthermore IEC
61499 describes different models of FBs, namely Basic Function Blocks, Composite Function Blocks,
Service Interface Function Blocks, Adapters and a Subapplications Model.
A network of FBs froms an IEC 61499 application that can be distriubed among different Devices and
Resources. One IEC 61499 system (which is equivalent with one IPMCS) consists therefore of one or
more Applications, Devices and Resources. The following figure provides an overview of the different IEC
61499 models.

IEC 61499 Models
IEC 61499-1, Function Blocks - Part 1: Architecture
IEC 61499-2, Function Blocks - Part 2: Software tool requirements
IEC 61499-4, Function Blocks - Part 4: Rules for compliance profiles
IEC 61499 Knol
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Alois Zoitl, "Real-time Execution and Dynamic Reconfiguration of IEC 61499 Applications",
O3NEIDA - Instrumentation Society of America, ISBN/ID: 978193439-42742008


IEC 61499 is the newly adopted stanard for
distributed control systems and follows on from the
IEC 61131 standard for programmable logic
controllers (PLCs). This book discusses real-time
execution of the models defined in the IEC 61499
standard with a closer look at predictable, event-
triggered real-time systems.

Manufacturing industries are experiencing rapidly
changing global markets and thus face an increasing
demand for flexible adaptable production systems.
The text guides the reader in understanding how to
design and reconfigure control applications at the
real-time control layer of the automation system.

The author describes how to introduce
reconfiguration to existing as well as new software
architectures and how to support reconfiguration in
an execution environment.

This book targets control, automation, and software
engineers intending to develop distributed flexible
industrial automation systems, as well as developers
of adaptable embedded systems.
Valeriy Vyatkin, "IEC 61499 Function Block for Embedded and Distributed Control Systems
Design", O3NEIDA - Instrumentation Society of America, ISBN/ID: 978-0-9792343-0-9,
2007


IEC 61499 is the newly adopted standard for
distributed control systems and follows on from the
IEC 61131 standard for programmable logic
controllers (PLC). Part of the ISA/O3neida series on
distributed industrial automation, this book is a
practical guide for component-based development of
distributed embedded and control systems as
proposed by the new international standard. Each
chapter is designed as an independent study unit,
making the book ideal for use in university courses,
industrial training, or self-study. Working knowledge
of the IEC 61499 standard can be achieved in
approximately 10 to 15 learning hours. For the
control, automation, or software engineer and the
embedded systems developer, this book provides
concrete directions on how to specify and implement
a distributed system according to the IEC 61499
standard and how to create an IEC 61499-compliant
control device. The text also sheds some light on the
broader embedded systems arena since the IEC
61499 standard provides the higher level (yet
executable!) abstraction appropriate for model-based
engineering of distributed embedded systems.

Robert W. Lewis, "Modeling control systems using IEC. 61499", IEE Publishing, ISBN: 0
85296 796 9, 2001


New technologies and standards are emerging which
will have a dramatic effect on the design and
implementation of future industrial control systems.
PLCs and PC-based soft controllers are beginning to
use software components, such as object-oriented
technology, to bring together the hitherto different
worlds of factory automation and business systems.
New tools and techniques are needed to design and
model these systems, such as UML and modern
fieldbus technology. The new IEC 61499 standard
has been developed to model distributed control
systems, defining concepts and models so that
software in the form of function blocks can be
interconnected to define the behaviour of a
distributed control system. Tools based on IEC 61499
are likely to emerge soon to model, validate and
simulate the behaviour of complex networks of
function blocks and it is expected that this standard
will become key to complex d

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