The use of CORBA in Process Control
| Authors: | Galán Santos, ASLAB, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Rodríguez Manuel, ASLAB, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Sanz Ricardo, ASLAB, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
García Carlos, ASLAB, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Chinchilla Rafael, ASLAB, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Yela Adolfo, ASLAB, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
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| Topic: | 3.1 Computers for Control |
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| Session: | Networked Control, SW for Real-Time Control |
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| Keywords: | Real-Time, CORBA, Process Control, Distributed Object Computing |
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Abstract
Present-day control systems in a process plant are composed by aheterogeneous collection of hardware and software entitiesscattered over a set of heterogeneous platforms. This HW/SWheterogeneity is a source of extreme complexity in the controlsystem regarded as a whole. To implement the new complex controlsystems Distributed Object Computing (DOC) seems the adequatetechnology. In the global DOC landscape, CORBA is a well known framework for the construction of modularised, object oriented, distributed applications. The use of CORBA-based control systems (CCS) has been investigated recently with promising results demonstrating the use of CORBA for Process Control Systems.
