Automatically Generated Layered Ontological Models for Semantic Analysis of Component-Based Control Systems

Author

Wenbin Dai ; Dubinin, Victor N. ; Vyatkin, Valeriy

Author_Institution

Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Volume

9

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

Nov. 2013

Firstpage

2124

Lastpage

2136

Abstract

The IEC 61499 standard is designed for distributed control and proposes new visual form of programming using block diagrams with embedded state machines and unlimited hierarchical nesting and distribution across networking devices. Such visual programs require new methods of automatic syntactic and semantic analysis. This paper proposes a new approach to semantic analysis using multiple-layered ontological knowledge representation and rule-based inference engine. Its working is demonstrated on example.

Keywords

IEC standards; control engineering computing; distributed control; inference mechanisms; object-oriented programming; ontologies (artificial intelligence); software architecture; visual programming; IEC 61499 standard; automatic syntactic analysis; block diagrams; component-based control systems; distributed control; embedded state machines; hierarchical nesting; layered ontological models; multiple-layered ontological knowledge representation; rule-based inference engine; semantic analysis; visual programming form; IEC standards; OWL; Ontologies; Semantics; Software architecture; XML; Component-based software architecture; IEC 61499 function blocks; OWL; SQWRL; SWRL; description logic (DL); embedded control systems; knowledge base; ontology; ontology reasoning; semantic analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1551-3203

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TII.2012.2235450

Filename

6389772