A network based virtual lab for motion control applications

Author

Mirabella, O. ; Brischetto, M. ; Raucea, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Telecommun., Univ. of Catania, Catania

fYear

2008

fDate

26-28 March 2008

Firstpage

342

Lastpage

347

Abstract

In this paper we describe the architecture and implementation of a virtual lab designed to show the effect of the network delay on a distributed network-based control system. In particular, we focus on electric motor actuators which represent one of the most time-critical devices in the process control area. The virtual lab allows the user to send commands to the motors through several communication networks with different features and to evaluate the performance degradation produced by the network delay.

Keywords

computer networks; control engineering computing; delays; distributed control; electric actuators; motion control; virtual instrumentation; communication networks; distributed network-based control system; electric motor actuators; motion control applications; network delay; performance degradation; process control area; time-critical devices; virtual lab; Actuators; Communication networks; Communication system control; Control systems; Delay effects; Distributed control; Electric motors; Motion control; Process control; Time factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Motion Control, 2008. AMC '08. 10th IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Trento

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1702-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1703-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AMC.2008.4516090

Filename

4516090