Desarrollo de una arquitectura de comunicación de procesos industriales basados en la Industria 4.0 mediante la incursión de los contenedores y el estándar IEC 61499

Abstract

The research project being developed aims to provide a solution to the problem of automation and process control in today's changing and demanding market. To this end, control systems based on the IEC 61499 standard and container technology are being developed. These systems seek to guarantee efficient, high-quality production, reduce costs and improve work safety, adapting to the specific needs of each industry and process. The use of the IEC 61499 standard and containers seeks to provide a scalable and flexible solution to this problem.

The control system developed is composed of three physical control devices: the ET 200SP industrial computer, which is in charge of data acquisition and sending through its 1515SP CPU by means of shared memory, and two Raspberry Pi B+ cards that are in charge of process control through the use of containers that have the corresponding control applications. These containers receive and send data to the industrial computer through the UDP (User Datagram Protocol) communication protocol. To facilitate the control and supervision of the processes, a graphical interface has been developed that communicates with the containers running on the Raspberry Pi cards through the OPC UA (Unified Architecture) protocol.

The control system combines the use of the IEC 61499 standard and containers, achieving stability in data traffic between devices, with a significant reduction in data traffic peaks and an equitable distribution of data traffic. This is because devices and applications are using resources efficiently and equitably, improving network performance and reducing the possibility of bottlenecks during the processes of sending, receiving and processing data.