The requirement for flexible operation is becoming increasingly important in modern
industrial systems. This requirement has to be supported at all system levels, including the …

This paper provides a comprehensive study on how to use Profibus fieldbus networks to
support real-time industrial communications, that is, on how to ensure the transmission of …

The Industrial Electronics Handbook, Second Edition, Industrial Communications Systems
combines traditional and newer, more specialized knowledge that helps industrial …

Cloud manufacturing yields insights of manufacturing services over cyberspace based on
the integration of advanced manufacturing with cloud computing. However, the different …

This paper describes several existing data link layer protocols that provide real-time
capabilities on wired networks, focusing on token-ring and Carrier Sense Multiple Access …

This paper focuses on a quality-of-service (QoS)-based remote control scheme for
networked control systems via the Profibus token passing protocol. Typically, token passing …

PROFIBUS is an international standard (IEC 61158) for factory-floor communications, with
some hundreds of thousands of world-wide installations. However, it does not include any …

This paper deals with the real implementation of an event-based control structure for the
classical rotary inverted pendulum. The communication between controller and plant is …

Optimal Design of Distributed Control and Embedded Systems focuses on the design of
special control and scheduling algorithms based on system structural properties as well as …