LUCAS Cluster Meeting - Industrial Automation

LUCAS– Centrum för Industriell Programvaruteknik i Lund Datavetenskap – Boris Magnusson Telekommunikationssystem – Per Runeson Reglerteknik – Karl Erik Årzén Mer info:

LUCAS – Center for Applied Software Research LUCAS är en samordning av programvaruinriktad verksamhet vid institutionerna för:  Datavetenskap  Telekommunikationssystem  Reglerteknik LUCAS har stöd från Vinnova med målsättningen att bli ett kompetenscentrum.

Tematiska områden Följande tre områden täcks av centrat:  Software Engineering Environments  Methods in Software Engineering  Real-Time System Software

Medlemsföretag  Guld  Ericsson Mobile Platforms  Sony Ericsson Mobile  ABB Automation Products  Silver  Telelogic, Q-Labs, Ericsson Microwave  Brons  TAC, ABB Robotics, IAR, connectBlue, BlueCell, Axis, C-Technology  Diskussion: Softlab, PDC (DK),...

LUCAS Projects

LUCAS aktiviteter  Forskningsprojekten  LUCAS dagarna  LUCAS klustermöten  Industriell automation  XP  Nätverk & Bluetooth  Testning, verifiering, validering  Kurser, seminarier

Automation Systems: Languages & Implementation  Goal/idea:  Use modern OO ideas in the design and implementation of control and automation systems  Domain-specific languages, co-design of control application and run-time environment, co-simulation tools  Progress:  ABB project within LUCAS  Aspect-oriented language development systems (Applab, JastAdd)  Complementary work at Automatic Control  Actors:  VINNOVA, SSF, ABB ATP, ABB Robotics, Sigma Exallon, TAC(?)  Karl-Erik Årzén, Klas Nilsson, Görel Hedin, Torbjörn Ekman, Anton Cervin, Dan Henriksson

Feedback and QoS in Embedded Systems  Goal/idea:  Study the possibility to use feedback principles in the modeling, analysis, and design of embedded systems as a way of handling the uncertainties in large and complex real-time systems  Study the possibility to use quality-of-service principles in feedback control systems  Progress:  Joint project between CS and AC funded by SSF/ARTES  FLEXCON application in submission to SSF/IT (passed first evaluation)  Actors:  VINNOVA, SSF, ABB ATP, ABB Robotics, Sigma Exallon, TAC(?)  Karl-Erik Årzén, Klas Nilsson, Anton Cervin, Sven Gestegård Robertz, Dan Henriksson

Java for Embedded Systems  Goal/idea:  Enable the use of OO in embedded and control systems  Progress:  Virtual machine, compiler, RT-system design: GC, scheduling, kernel  Experiments and prototyping on several plattforms  Product development  Actors:  Vinnova, ABB, BlueCell & TAC, Softlab(?), Ericsson(?), Telelogic (?), C-Technologies(?), IAR(!)  Boris Magnusson, Roger Henriksson, Klas Nilsson, Anders Ive, Anders Nilsson, Anders Blomdell

Networked Control Systems  Goal/idea:  flexibility through new techniques: dynamic linking, radio communication (Bluetooth).  Progress:  New project with Vinnova support  Relations to Java and COOP and control projects  Actors:  Vinnova, ABB AP(?), BlueCell(?), TAC(?)  Boris Magnusson, Karl-Erik Årzén, Klas Nilsson, Anders Nilsson, Bo Lincoln

System & Software Architectures in Robotics  Goal/idea:  Study system & software architectures that allow flexibility in industrial robotics systems  Vision, force control, collaboration, distributed control  Progress:  Robotics lab at AC important base resource for LUCAS  Long time collaboration with ABB Robotics  Actors:  VINNOVA, ABB Robotics,  Klas Nilsson, Anders Robertsson, Mattias Haage, Rolf Johansson, Anders Blomdell, Daniel Einarson

Integrated Control & Scheduling  SSF / ARTES  Teleca och DDA Consulting som industriella noder  Anton Cervin och Sven Gestegård

Automation  Important area for Swedish and local industry  Area with long tradition  Currently in a state of transition  Several instantiations:  industrial, building, automotive, …  Wide range  from enterprise-wide systems (Industrial IT) to tiny embedded controllers

Automation  Programmable systems  system level (configuration, compilation, run-time system, …)  application level (user programming)  Domain-specific languages  graphical  easy to use but not constraining  animation & visualization  standards (e.g. IEC , S88, S95,…)

Automation  Real-time requirements  periodic execution  determinism  support for concurrency  Distributed execution  Safety-Critical  verification (formal or practical) important  hybrid systems (plant + controller)

Automation  Small market  COTS hardware and software  Efficient development processes and reuse  Modern software techniques  concurrent object-oriented languages (Java, C#)  Interesting tradeoffs  flexibility and openness vs safety and performance