A Novel Methodology for Development of Distributed Industrial Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network in Reconfigurable Mechatronic Devices

ABSTRACT: Recently the globalization of manufacturing industry systems has led to increase the competition in respond to today’s demanding market especially in medium-size companies. The global competition requires the manufacturing systems to be flexible and reconfigurable specifically in the shop floor level where mechatronic devices reside. In this thesis, a novel methodology for the development and structural modeling of industrial wireless sensors and actuators is presented in order to provide flexibility and reconfigurability to the mechatronic devices. The proposed methodology is based on the implementation of the IEC 61499 standard for the distributed control of mechatronic systems. The methodology also addresses the existing problems of this standard for capturing the system requirements in the development process. For this reason, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used in order to overcome this problem. Petri net as a mathematical modeling language is employed in order to demonstrate the performance of the proposed methodology. A prototype software tool is designed to translate the developed UML diagrams to IEC 61499 standard models as XML files. Keywords: Distributed Control Systems, IEC 61499 Function Blocks, Industrial Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networksiv. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………