WS1 - 5th 4DIAC Users' Workshop
Focus: the open source initiative 4DIAC – Framework for Distributed Industrial Automation and Control
Organizers:
Alois Zoitl, fortiss GmbH, Germany
Gerhard Ebenhofer, PROFACTOR GmbH, Austria
Thomas Strasser, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Aims & Scope:
The open source initiative 4DIAC – Framework for Distributed Industrial Automation and Control (www.fordiac.org) has been founded with the idea to support research activities and industrial adoption of distributed automation systems. During the last years, 4DIAC grew with new versions, added improvements and new features for the modeling of distributed automation systems as well as the corresponding runtime environment. Moreover, a special focus was on the performance improvement of the runtime system. Even more important, 4DIAC as an IEC 61499-compliant distributed control environment for industrial and research applications has proven to be a stable basis for further research towards the next generation of distributed automation and control systems based on open standards.
With this workshop we would like to bring the developers and users of 4DIAC together as the users are the main drivers of ongoing development activities. This event should provide a discussion platform to present novel research and achieved results based on the 4DIAC open source project. Moreover, new ideas and approaches as well as near future plans for 4DIAC can be discussed which turn this initiative into the position to become a larger framework for many application domains.
Technical Program:
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and Recent Activities of the 4DIAC Open Source Initiative
A. Zoitl, fortiss GmbH, Germany
09:30 - 10:30 Session 1. Infrastructure Enhancements
Chair: A. Zoitl
- Extending 4DIAC with a partitioning and scheduling tool
Michael Wahler, Aurélien Monot, Manuel Oriol, ABB Corporate Research Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland - Scheduling IEC 61499 Function Block based models on resource constrained platforms (MCUs)
Per Lindgren, Marcus Lindner, Andreas Lindner, Johan Eriksson, and Valeriy Vyatkin, Lulea University of Technology - Dynamically loadable Function Block types to reduce application development time
Matthias Plasch, Gerhard Ebenhofer, Michael Hofmann, Profactor GmbH, Austria
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 2. Communication Modelling
Chair: M. Plasch
- An enhanced communication scheme for 4DIAC
Georgios Sfiris, and Georgios Hassapis, Laboratory of Computer System Architecture, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Middleware Architecture for CPPS over IEC 61499
Frederico Pérez, Isidro Calvo, Dario Orive, and Marga Marcos, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros - Automatic generation of distributed communication in 4DIAC
Luka Lednicki and Jan Carlson, Mälardalen Real-time Research Centre, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden - Open Discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break (not served by the organization)
13:30 - 15:30 Hands On. Session 1
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00 Hands On. Session 2
NOTICE - Own laptop computer is required for performing the exercises!!!