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Designing automation distributed systems based on IEC-61499 and UML

Abstract:

Throughout the days, industry is brought closer to the Industry 4.0 paradigm due to its needs of improving the control process and reaching even better industrial communications. In order to reach these improvements that aim towards obtaining agile and intelligent manufacturing systems, the IEC-61499 standard is considered the main option by many researchers. Although its benefits, its biggest restraint is the lack of software tools required for an effective design process for distributed control systems. The following work presents a proposal detailing the implementation of the IEC-61499 standard in low-cost devices using 4DIAC-FORTE for the distributed control of a FESTO MPS 200 educational system, using UML diagrams as software tool for modelling Function Blocks (FBs) of IEC-61499 standard. By its use, it is verified a simple and easy way to create distributed systems.