Vendor-Independent modeling and exchange of Fieldbus Topologies with AutomationML

To simplify the engineering of field devices, almost every fieldbus organization has developed its own Device Description Language (DDL), a formal language to describe the services and configuration options of field devices. The DDLs are usually tailored to the needs of the associated fieldbus engin...

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Published in2018 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA) Vol. 1; pp. 956 - 963
Main Authors Rentschler, Markus, Drath, Rainer
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2018
Subjects
AutomationML
Data models
Device Description
EDD
FDCML
FDT
GSD
GSDML
IO-Link
IODD
Network topology
Object oriented modeling
Topology
XML
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Summary:To simplify the engineering of field devices, almost every fieldbus organization has developed its own Device Description Language (DDL), a formal language to describe the services and configuration options of field devices. The DDLs are usually tailored to the needs of the associated fieldbus engineering tool chain and unusable in tool chains of other vendors or in tools for other lifecycle phases. This paper describes a generic approach to overcome these shortcomings by means of AutomationML and provides an example for IO-Link masters and devices. The proposed method is generic and re-usable for other DDLs.
ISSN:1946-0759
DOI:10.1109/ETFA.2018.8502630