Software engineering in industrial automation: State-of-the-art review

V Vyatkin - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents one perspective on recent developments related to software
engineering in the industrial automation sector that spans from manufacturing factory …

Verification of PLC programs given as sequential function charts

N Bauer, S Engell, R Huuck, S Lohmann… - Integration of Software …, 2004 - Springer
Abstract Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) are widespread in the manufacturing and
processing industries to realize sequential procedures and to avoid safety-critical states. For …

Enabling industry 4.0 service-oriented architecture through digital twins

F Schnicke, T Kuhn, PO Antonino - … , ECSA 2020 Tracks and Workshops, L' …, 2020 - Springer
A major goal of Industry 4.0 is to increase changeability of production processes, and to
reduce the additional cost for individualized products. A service oriented production …

[PDF][PDF] Review of model-based testing approaches in production automation and adjacent domains-current challenges and research gaps

S Rösch, S Ulewicz, J Provost… - Journal of Software …, 2015 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
As systems have been and are becoming more and more complex, the task of quality
assurance is increasingly challenging. Model-based testing is a research field addressing …

Transformation of GRAFCET to PLC code including hierarchical structures

R Julius, M Schürenberg, F Schumacher… - Control Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
GRAFCET is an advantageous modelling language for the specification of controllers in
discrete event systems. It allows for hierarchically structuring a control program's …

Formal representation of GRAFCET to automatically generate control code

F Schumacher, A Fay - Control Engineering Practice, 2014 - Elsevier
Within the engineering of control code, model-based approaches become more and more
important. Basically GRAFCET serves as a suitable modeling language but lacks an …

Regression verification for programmable logic controller software

B Beckert, M Ulbrich, B Vogel-Heuser… - Formal Methods and …, 2015 - Springer
Automated production systems are usually driven by Programmable Logic Controllers
(PLCs). These systems are long-living–yet have to adapt to changing requirements over …

Migration from PLC to IEC 61499 using semantic web technologies

W Dai, VN Dubinin, V Vyatkin - IEEE Transactions on Systems …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new methodology of migration from IEC 61131-3 PLCs to IEC 61499
function blocks. The aim of this migration process is to recreate IEC 61131-3 applications in …

Formal modeling of sequential function charts with time Petri nets

N Wightkin, U Buy, H Darabi - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sequential function charts (SFCs) are among the standard languages for programmable
logic controllers (PLCs) ubiquitous in automated manufacturing and production systems …

Two CEGAR-based approaches for the safety verification of PLC-controlled plants

J Nellen, K Driessen, M Neuhäußer, E Ábrahám… - Information Systems …, 2016 - Springer
In this paper we address the safety analysis of chemical plants controlled by programmable
logic controllers (PLCs). We consider a specification of the control program of the PLCs …