Databases in automated process control

This report describes practical experiences in building systems for manufacturing and robotics. Transporting plants are a typical example for the integration of database systems and real-time systems. This is due to the fact that general administration, workflow control as well as physical movements...

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Published inIECON '98. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (Cat. No.98CH36200) Vol. 1; pp. 193 - 198 vol.1
Main Authors Zirkelbach, C., Verbarg, K.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1998
Subjects
Automatic control
Computer networks
Control systems
Database systems
Manufacturing
Process control
Real time systems
Robot kinematics
Robotics and automation
Transaction databases
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Summary:This report describes practical experiences in building systems for manufacturing and robotics. Transporting plants are a typical example for the integration of database systems and real-time systems. This is due to the fact that general administration, workflow control as well as physical movements of conveyor systems have to be coordinated. In practice, plant engineers were forced to develop pragmatic but working concepts to bring real-time issues and database principles under a single roof. The most common approach is based on a hierarchical network of two different types of computers-administration computers and control computers-to handle database services or real-time services, respectively. In such a setting, recovery for real-time computers can be achieved by means of downloading the relevant data from a database-supported administration computer. Overall integrity requires communication supported by database services. Here, we treat the necessary transaction processing framework.
ISBN:0780345037
9780780345034
DOI:10.1109/IECON.1998.723980