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ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An IEC61499 Execution Environment for an aJile-based Field Device
—The IEC61499 standard is the first step towards the development of the next generation agile manufacturing systems where distribution, interoperability and re-configuration are ...
Kleanthis Thramboulidis, Nikolaos Papakonstantinou
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Integrating Inaccessibility Control and Timer Management in CANELy
The CAN Enhanced Layer (CANELy) is a CAN-based infrastructure capable of extremely reliable communication. This paper describes the mechanisms and the techniques used in CANELy to...
José Rufino, Paulo Veríssimo, Carlos...
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Empirical Evaluation of SysML through the Modeling of an Industrial Automation Unit
Industrial automation systems may include people, hardware, software and others necessaries to produce the desirable results. The SysML modeling language is being proposed, by OMG...
Marcos Vinicius Linhares, Alexandre Jose da Silva,...
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Robust Fault Isolation Filter Design for Networked Control Systems
In this paper, the effect of network-induced delay introduced into the control loop is modelled as time-varying disturbance. Based on this model, a fault isolation filter (FIF) f...
Shanbin Li, Dominique Sauter, Christophe Aubrun
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Modelling and Verification of IEC 61499 Applications using Prolog
This paper presents a new approach to modelling and verification of function block applications of the IEC 61499 standard. The approach uses the language of logic programming Prol...
Victor Dubinin, Valeriy Vyatkin, Hans-Michael Hani...
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Component Framework for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) constitute an emerging and pervasive technology that is attracting increased interest for a wide range of applications. WSANs have two m...
Manuel Díaz, Daniel Garrido, Luis Llopis, B...
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Performance of an Application Layer Protocol for Wireless Industrial Communications
Current wireless technologies offer a viable solution for implementing communication systems capable of satisfying the severe timing requirements often required for operations at ...
Iacopo Carreras, Daniele Miorandi, Stefano Vitturi
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Cost-based Deployment Planning for Components in Smart Item Environments
Middleware for smart items can facilitate the coordinated execution of distributed components for early data processing. These components can be deployed to different nodes in the...
Jürgen Anke, Klaus Kabitzsch
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Operating Systems Portability: 8 bits and beyond
Embedded software often needs to be ported from one system to another. This may happen for a number of reasons among which are the need for using less expensive hardware or the ne...
Hugo Marcondes, Arliones Stevert Hoeller, Lucas Fr...
ETFA
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Framework for Fault Tolerant Real Time Systems Based on Reconfigurable FPGAs
♦ To increase the amount of logic available to the users in SRAM-based FPGAs, manufacturers are using nanometric technologies to boost logic density and reduce costs, making its ...
Manuel G. Gericota, Luís F. Lemos, Gustavo ...