SBIR Phase II: A Programming Environment to Enable Engineers to Program Distributed Measurement and Control Networks

SBIR 第二阶段：使工程师能够对分布式测量和控制网络进行编程的编程环境

• 批准号: 0216240
• 负责人: Thomas Sharp
• 金额: $ 49.92万
• 依托单位: SHEET DYNAMICS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-10-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0216240&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Programming; Environment

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop a high level graphical programming environment for distributed measurement and control networks used in industry. Using this environment, an industrial control engineer will be able to describe the desired behavior of his/her system at a high level of abstraction (e.g. 'control motor speed', 'monitor bearing', 'monitor pump') and then "click a button" for the executable distributed application to be generated. In addition, the engineer will be able to monitor the behavior of the executing system at the graphical level to help identify problems. This system will automatically partition the graphical description into components targeted at specific processors on the network based upon the resources required by the algorithm. This functionality will greatly benefit the industrial control engineer, who will be able to focus on algorithm and application development rather than details of hardware and networking realizations.As the commercial potential of distributed approaches are becoming more prevalent in industrial applications, the potential of this software system will grow at a fast rate. For example, 15 network controllers instead of one now manage a Proctor & Gamble diaper manufacturing line. Currently the market for distributed measurement and control is fragmented, with over 60 proprietary process network standards in use. The advent of the IEEE 1451 smart transducer standard creates a huge market opportunity by providing a portable application model that enables development tools, such as those being developed in this project, to be used with the multitude of existing commercial process busses.

该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将为工业中使用的分布式测量和控制网络开发一个高级图形编程环境。 使用该环境，工业控制工程师将能够在高抽象级别上描述他/她的系统的期望行为（例如，“控制电机速度”、“监视轴承”、“监视泵”），然后“点击按钮”以生成可执行的分布式应用。 此外，工程师将能够在图形级别监视执行系统的行为，以帮助识别问题。 该系统将根据算法所需的资源自动将图形描述划分为针对网络上特定处理器的组件。 这一功能将极大地有利于工业控制工程师，他们将能够专注于算法和应用程序的开发，而不是硬件和网络实现的细节。随着分布式方法的商业潜力在工业应用中变得越来越普遍，该软件系统的潜力将快速增长。 例如，现在管理普罗克特Gamble尿布生产线的网络控制器由一个改为15个。 目前，分布式测量和控制的市场是分散的，有60多个专有的过程网络标准在使用。 IEEE 1451智能传感器标准的出现通过提供一种便携式应用模型创造了巨大的市场机会，该模型使开发工具（例如本项目中正在开发的工具）能够与众多现有的商业过程总线一起使用。