DINASORE: A Dynamic Intelligent Reconfiguration Tool for Cyber-Physical Production Systems
Authors:
- Eliseu Moura Pereira, University of Porto
- João Pedro Correia dos Reis, University of Porto
- Gil Goncalves, University of Porto
Abstract:
The nowadays industrial digital revolution demands for software driven solutions where reconfiguration is one of the key enablers to achieve smart manufacturing by easy deployment and code reuse. Despite existing several tools and platforms that allow for software reconfiguration at the digital twin / edge level, it is most of the times difficult to make use of state of the art algorithms developed in the most popular programming languages due to software incompatibility. This paper presents a novel framework named Dynamic INtelligent Architecture for Software MOdular REconfiguration (DINASORE) that implements the industrial standard IEC 61499 based in Function Blocks (FB) in Python language for Cyber-Physical Production Systems' implementation. It adopts the 4DIAC-IDE as graphical user interface (GUI) to ease the design and deployment of FBs to quickly and on-demand reconfigure target equipment. The proposed framework provides data integration to third party platforms through the use of OPC-UA. The test scenarios demonstrate that the proposed framework 1) is flexible and reliable for different applications and 2) linear increases the CPU and memory workload for a large amount of FBs.