A Low-Cost Embedded Controller for Complex Control Systems

Author

Peng, Zhe ; Ma, Longhua ; Xia, Feng

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Ind. Control Technol., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

17-20 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

29

Abstract

The complexity of real-world industrial control systems is growing rapidly. This raises significant challenges for the use of embedded systems in control applications, since embedded platforms are generally resource limited. In this work we develop a Scilab/Scicos based embedded controller on which various control software can be easily modeled, simulated, implemented, and evaluated to meet the ever-expanding requirements of complex industrial control applications. It is built on the Cirrus Logic EP9315 ARM9 systems-on-chip board. With the developed platform, it is possible to design and implement complex embedded control systems that employ advanced control strategies in a rapid and cost-efficient fashion. Thanks to the free and open source nature of the software packages used, the cost of the embedded controller is minimized.

Keywords

embedded systems; industrial control; large-scale systems; logic design; microcontrollers; system-on-chip; Cirrus logic EP9315 ARM9 systems-on-chip board; complex industrial control system; control software; low-cost Scicos based embedded controller; low-cost Scilab based embedded controller; Application software; Automatic control; Automatic generation control; Control systems; Costs; Embedded system; Industrial control; Mathematical model; Open source software; Real time systems; ARM Linux; Complex Control Systems; Embedded Systems; Scilab;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, 2008. EUC '08. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3492-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUC.2008.40

Filename

4756316