Model-Driven Development of Automation and Control Applications : Modeling and Simulation of Control Sequences

Abstract EN

The scope and responsibilities of control applications are increasing due to, for example, the emergence of industrial internet.

To meet the challenge, model-driven development techniques have been in active research in the application domain.

Simulations that have been traditionally used in the domain, however, have not yet been sufficiently integrated to model-driven control application development.

In this paper, a model-driven development process that includes support for design-time simulations is complemented with support for simulating sequential control functions.

The approach is implemented with open source tools and demonstrated by creating and simulating a control system model in closed-loop with a large and complex model of a paper industry process.