Automatic code generation from a UML model to IEC 61131-3 and system configuration tools

Author

Vogel-Heuser, Birgit ; Witsch, Daniel ; Katzke, Uwe

Author_Institution

Process Control Eng., Wuppertal Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

29-29 June 2005

Firstpage

1034

Abstract

An agile software development approach for embedded systems has been transferred to automation and process control. With using UML 1.4, an approach was developed, which allows to generate IEC 61131-3 code from an UML-model and to import it into soft-PLCs, automatically. The generated IEC 61131 code consists of ST and SFC. Besides, the system architecture is part of the UML-model, which bridges the gap between hard and software engineering. This approach was evaluated by using a sorting machine and by automation experts. The work is embedded in a development of UML for process automation and usability test of UML with automation engineers.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; control engineering computing; process control; production engineering computing; program compilers; software engineering; IEC 61131-3; UML model; agile software development approach; automatic code generation; embedded systems; hardware engineering; process control; software engineering; sorting machine; system configuration tools; Automation; Bridges; Computer architecture; Embedded system; IEC standards; Process control; Programming; Software engineering; Sorting; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control and Automation, 2005. ICCA '05. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9137-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCA.2005.1528274

Filename

1528274