Object Oriented Timed Messaging Service for Industrial Ethernet : a Fieldbus Like Architecture for Power Plant Control and Factory Automation
Résumé
This paper describes an object oriented timed industrial messaging service
suited to industrial Ethernet. We use an object oriented middleware technology
able to run over Ethernet and TCP/IP. This framework addresses fieldbus
architectures for power plant control and factory automation. The services
provided by our prototype for data access are similar to the one offered by
TASE.2. TASE.2 is a companion standard of the ISO Manufacturing Message
Specification, dedicated to the utility domain. More precisely our work maps
a subset of the TASE.2 specification to an ORB environment. We are
interested to TASE.2 block 1 (periodic data exchange), block 2 (event based
data exchange), and block 5 (device control). Our services are specified
with CORBA IDL. Our result has a general scope and can be used for any
factory network built on top of industrial Ethernet.