Opportunities for Industrial Control

Author(s): Martin Witte, Martin A. Sehr, Ines Ugalde, Joerg Neidig, Mehrdad Niknami, Stephan Hoeme, and Edward A. Lee

Citation
Martin Witte, Martin A. Sehr, Ines Ugalde, Joerg Neidig, Mehrdad Niknami, Stephan Hoeme, and Edward A. Lee. "Opportunities for Industrial Control". IFAC World Congress, July 12-17 2020.

Abstract
Programmable Logic Controllers are an established platform used throughout industrial automation, but rather poorly understood among researchers in the control systems community. This paper gives an overview of the state of the practice in industrial control systems while presenting a critical analysis of the dominant programming styles used in today’s automation systems. We describe the patterns standardized loosely in IEC 61131-3 and, where there are ambiguities in the standard, realized in concrete vendor implementations. Ultimately, we suggest directions for further research towards enabling increasingly complex industrial control applications subject to the novel requirements of Industry 4.0 settings without compromising the safety and reliability guaranteed by the current industrial automation stack.

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  Martin Witte, Martin A. Sehr, Ines Ugalde, Joerg Neidig, Mehrdad Niknami, Stephan Hoeme, and Edward A. Lee.
  "Opportunities for Industrial Control".
  IFAC World Congress, July 12-17 2020.
                  
                  

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  @inproceedings{WitteEtAl:20:IndustrialControl,
  	author = {Martin Witte, Martin A. Sehr, Ines Ugalde, Joerg Neidig, Mehrdad Niknami, Stephan Hoeme, and Edward A. Lee},
  	title = {Opportunities for Industrial Control},
  	booktitle = {IFAC World Congress},
  	month = {July 12-17},
  	year = {2020},
  	abstract = {Programmable Logic Controllers are an established platform used throughout industrial automation, but rather poorly understood among researchers in the control systems community. This paper gives an overview of the state of the practice in industrial control systems while presenting a critical analysis of the dominant programming styles used in today’s automation systems. We describe the patterns standardized loosely in IEC 61131-3 and, where there are ambiguities in the standard, realized in concrete vendor implementations. Ultimately, we suggest directions for further research towards enabling increasingly complex industrial control applications subject to the novel requirements of Industry 4.0 settings without compromising the safety and reliability guaranteed by the current industrial automation stack.},
  	URL = {https://www.icyphy.org/publications/2020_WitteEtAl/}
  }