Bridging Service-Oriented Architecture and IEC 61499 for Flexibility and Interoperability

Author

Wenbin Dai ; Vyatkin, Valeriy ; Christensen, James H. ; Dubinin, Victor N.

Author_Institution

Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

Volume

11

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Jun-15

Firstpage

771

Lastpage

781

Abstract

In recent years, requirements for interoperability, flexibility, and reconfigurability of complex automation industry applications have increased dramatically. The adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) could be a feasible solution to meet these challenges. The IEC 61499 standard defines a set of management commands, which provides the capability of dynamic reconfiguration without affecting normal operation. In this paper, a formal model is proposed for the application of SOAs in the distributed automation domain in order to achieve flexible automation systems. Practical scenarios of applying SOA in industrial automation are discussed. In order to support the SOA IEC 61499 model, a service-based execution environment architecture is proposed. One main characteristic of flexibility-dynamic reconfiguration-is also demonstrated using a case study example.

Keywords

IEEE standards; factory automation; power engineering computing; reconfigurable architectures; service-oriented architecture; substation automation; IEC 61499 standard; SOA; complex automation industry application; distributed automation domain; dynamic reconfiguration; flexibility; flexible automation system; formal model; industrial automation; interoperability; management commands; reconfigurability; service-based execution environment architecture; service-oriented architecture; Automation; IEC standards; Interoperability; Runtime; Service-oriented architecture; Dynamic Reconfiguration; Dynamic reconfiguration; Flexibility; IEC 61131-3; IEC 61499; Industrial Automation; Interoperability; PLC; SOAP; Service Discovery; Service-Oriented Architecture; WSDL; Web services description language (WSDL); flexibility; function blocks; industrial automation; interoperability; programmable logic controllers (PLCs); service discovery; service-oriented architecture (SOA); simple object access protocol (SOAP);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1551-3203

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TII.2015.2423495

Filename

7086296