EVENT DRIVEN APPLICATIONS FOR AUTOMATION AREA

Traditional design methods in the area of automation are dominated by the Function Block approach. For the execution of event driven, distributed applications, other approaches coming from computer science have to be considered. One promising approach among others is the usage of ports for the interaction of objects. This article describes an approach for an IEC 61499 runtime, based on a distributed, object-oriented automation system, using objects interacting via the port concept. Such objects can be designed by a high level language DOME-L, offering the additional features for defining the automation objects.