COMPUTER NETWORKS FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

Industrial and civil automation systems: organization of activities and temporal constraints of the various processes. Communication problems and traffic characterization in the different types of automation systems: Manufacturing, Process Control, Automotive, Home automation, Building automation.

Functional Architecture of different automation systems: Hierarchical Model and Integrated model. Network architectures in automation applications. Characterization of different levels: Plant, Process and Field. The technological evolution of network architectures starting From MAP model. Application Layer in Industrial Automation Systems: The MMS protocol and its evolution in Fieldbus.

Communication systems with real-time constraints: Features, objectives, misconceptions. Time-driven and event-driven models. Characterization of communication constraints: hard, soft and firm real-time.

Overview of the main types of MAC protocol in use in automation real-time. Main types of Fieldbus networks: Profibus, WorldFip, Foundation Fieldbus, Interbus-S. Transmissions Scheduling in communication systems with real-time constraints: Defining the issues and performance targets in automation contexts. Traffic scheduling algorithms for periodic flows: Timeline scheduling, Rate Monotonic, Earliest Deadline First, Deadline monotonic. Schedulability Test and Response Time Analysis. Integrated scheduling for both periodic and aperiodic flows.

Networks for automotive applications. Functional domains and their characterization in terms of constraints on the traffic. CAN, TTCAN; TTP / C, FlexRay. Overview of LIN and MOST. Ethernet in automation applications: Switched Ethernet. Industrial Ethernet. IEC 61784 Communication profiles and performance indicators. Design aspects and current implementations of Industrial Ethernet.

Use of wireless systems in automation applications: Advantages and open issues. IEEE802.11x standard and its variants: features and different applications. Bluetooth and ZigBee.

Clock synchronization in automation: The logical clock. Methods for internal and external synchronization. Centralized and distributed algorithms. Synchronization on the Internet: Berkeley algorithm, Network time protocol. IEEE 1588 Protocol. Synchronization algorithms for wireless systems: Continuous clock Synchronization, Dynamic Continuous Clock Synchronization.

The Industrial Communication Technology Handbook
Published: February 23, 2005 by CRC Press - 936 Pages
Author(s): Richard Zurawski
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