Exploiting voting strategies in partially replicated IEC 61499 applications

de Sousa, Mario; Chrysoulas, Christos; Homay, Aydin E.

Abstract

In a modern industrial environment control programs are distributed among several devices. This raises new issues and challenges especially in failure modes. Building fault tolerant applications can be the solution in order a failure of one sub-component not to jeopardize the execution of the whole application. The authors have proposed a framework to support replicated IEC 61499 applications. In this paper we augment this framework with the support for different voting strategies, propose an extension of the replication communication protocol, and analyse the resulting fault-tolerance semantics. A limited implementation of the framework is also described.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 2015 IEEE World Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS)
• Start Date: May 27, 2015
• End Date: May 29, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Feb 28, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Jul 16, 2015
• Publication Date: Jul 16, 2015
• Deposit Date: Feb 10, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 11, 2020
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• ISBN: 9781479982448
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/wfcs.2015.7160589
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2548519