Towards Time-Sensitive Behavioral Contract Monitors for IEC 61499 Function Blocks
Duc Do Tran, Kim Grüttner, Jörg Walter and Frank Oppenheimer
3rd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2020)
The IEC standard 61499 defines a generic model for distributed industry control systems. It offers high flexibility through an event-driven model of execution. The downside of such models is that they can be difficult to analyze and debug.The central modeling element of IEC 61499 is the function block (FB), a composable representation of behaviour activated through event ports, with optional data ports. We adopt the concept of contracts for FBs to allow the specification of assumptions and guarantees over data/event traces of their input and output ports.This work proposes an initial concept for integrating time-sensitive behavioural contracts with IEC 61499 FBs. We propose specification patterns and a tool that supports the automatic generation and integrating of contract monitors into IEC 61499 FB models. These monitors observe an FB's input and output values/events and check that assumptions and guarantees hold. We evaluate our proposed concept on a simple pick and place control system that is modeled in 4diac, an open source IEC 61499 framework.
06 / 2020
inproceedings
Productive4.0
Electronics and ICT as enabler for digital industry and optimized supply chain management covering the entire product lifecycle
Electronics and ICT as enabler for digital industry and optimized supply chain management covering the entire product lifecycle
