Refactoring of Execution Control Charts in Basic Function Blocks of the IEC 61499 Standard

Author

Vyatkin, Valeriy ; Dubinin, Victor

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Volume

6

Issue

2

fYear

2010

fDate

5/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

165

Abstract

This paper deals with refactoring of execution control charts of IEC 61499 basic function blocks as a means to improve the engineering support potential of the standard in development of industrial control applications. The main purpose of the refactoring is removal of arcs without event inputs. Extended refactoring, proposed in this paper, also helps to get rid of potential deadlock states. The ECC refactoring is implemented as a set of graph transformation rules. A prototype has been implemented using the AGG software tool. The refactoring can help in implementing equivalent transformation of control programs without introducing errors.

Keywords

IEC standards; control charts; graph grammars; graph theory; industrial control; software maintenance; software tools; AGG software tool; IEC 61499 standard; basic function blocks; control program transformation; engineering support potential; execution control chart refactoring; graph transformation rules; industrial control; Graph transformations; IEC 61499; refactoring; software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1551-3203

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TII.2009.2033051

Filename

5339089