Study on influence of the new CoDeSys V3.0 on the existing CoDeSys discipline of the Mind8 Engineering Center

CoDeSys "Controller Development Systems" is a development environment for programming in the area of automation controllers. It is an open source solution completely in line with the international industrial standard IEC 61131-3. All five programming languages for application programming as defined in IEC 61131-3 are available in the development environment. These features give professionals greater flexibility with regard to programming and allow control engineers have the ability to program for many different applications in the languages in which they feel most comfortable. Over 200 manufacturers of devices from different industrial sectors offer intelligent automation devices with a CoDeSys programming interface. In 2006, version 3 was released with new updates and tools. One of the great innovations of the new version of CoDeSys is object oriented programming. Object oriented programming (OOP) offers great advantages to the user for example when wanting to reuse existing parts of the application or when working on one application with several developers. For this reuse can be prepared a source code with several well known parts and this is automatically generated where necessary in a project, users can improve then the time/cost/quality management. Until now in version 2 it was necessary to have hardware interface called “Eni-Server” to have access to the generated XML code. Another of the novelties of the new version is a tool called Export PLCopenXML. This tool makes it possible to export the open XML code without the need of specific hardware. This type of code has own requisites to be able to comply with the standard described above. With XML code and with the knowledge how it works it is possible to do component-oriented development of machines with modular programming in an easy way. Eplan Engineering Center (EEC) is a software tool developed by Mind8 GmbH & Co. KG that allows configuring and generating automation projects. Therefore it uses modules of PLC code. The EEC already has a library to generate code for CoDeSys version 2. For version 3 and the constant innovation of drivers by manufacturers, it is necessary to implement a new library in this software. Therefore it is important to study the XML export to be then able to design any type of machine. The purpose of this master thesis is to study the new version of the CoDeSys XML taking into account all aspects and impact on the existing CoDeSys V2 models and libraries in the company Harro Höfliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH. For achieve this goal a small sample named “Traffic light” in CoDeSys version 2 will be done and then, using the tools of the new version it there will be a project with version 3 and also the EEC implementation for the automatically generated code.

Desenvolvimento de funções de lógica difusa para PLC

Este trabalho pretende preencher uma lacuna no controlo difuso em todos os autómatos/controladores que usam a plataforma Codesys para a sua programação. Começando por um levantamento histórico e a respetiva compreensão do que é a lógica difusa até à análise do que existe no mercado nos dias de hoje. Será realizada uma abordagem do que é a plataforma Codesys e a utilização da norma IEC61131-3. Sendo efetuada também uma análise da norma IEC61131-7 que explica como deve ser realizado o controlo difuso em PLC. Para colmatar a lacuna existente foi desenvolvido um software tendo por base a plataforma Codesys e validado e testado com o software SoMachine da Schneider Electric. Esse software será devidamente descrito para ser entendido de uma forma fácil.

Automation Concept for Electrically Excited LV Synchronous Motor: Implementation into AC500 Programmable Logic Environment

This bachelor’s thesis is a part of the research project realized in the summer 2011 in Lappeenranta University of Technology. The goal of the project was to develop an automation concept for controlling the electrically excited synchronous motor. Thesis concentrates on the implementation of the automation concept into the ABB’s AC500 programmable logic enviroment. The automation program was developed as a state machine with the ABB’s PS501 Control Builder software. For controlling the automation program is developed a fieldbus control and with CodeSys Visualization Tool a local control with control panel. The fieldbus control is done to correspond the ABB drives communication profile and the local control is implemented with a function block which feeds right control words into the statemachine. A field current control of the synchronous motor is realized as a method presented in doctoral thesis of Olli Pyrhönen (Pyrhönen 1998). The Method combines stator flux and torque based openloop control and power factor based feedback control.

Modularität und Wiederverwendung

Vorträge / Präsentationen des Automation Symposiums 2008

Progetto e sviluppo di un automa per la gestione ed il controllo di sistemi a pilotaggio remoto

L’attenzione di questa tesi si pone sulla progettazione e lo sviluppo di un automa per il controllo di sistemi a pilotaggio remoto. Punto di partenza dell'intero progetto è stata l'analisi del quadrirotore programmato ed utilizzato dai ricercatori del progetto SHERPA. Le funzionalità evidenziate dall'analisi sono state poi elaborate secondo l'approccio con Attuatore Generalizzato ed implementate in Codesys. Questo software si compone di una parte di controllo, una di simulazione ed una o più interfacce grafiche dedicate all'interazione con l'utente. L'utilizzo di Codesys ha permesso di implementare un automa modulare e riusabile, base di partenza per i futuri progetti di automi aerei. L'automa realizzato consente infine di simulare il comportamento di un generico sistema a pilotaggio remoto e di osservarne la sequenza logica con cui le azioni vengono eseguite.