Special Session

The IEC 61499 Function Block Model in Control and Automation

The world’s 1^st Special Session on IEC61499

Special Session Report

Special Session Structure in brief

SS01A: The IEC 61499 Function Block Model in Control and Automation

SS01B: IEC 61499 Implementations

SS01C: ISaGRAF live Demonstration on IEC 61499

SS01D: IEC 61499 example applications

SS01E: Posters

Social Events

SS01B: IEC 61499 Implementations

Friday Sept 28

Two papers and a live demonstration were presented in the second session:

Friday 13:30 – 15:00 just before the closing session of ETFA’07

Kleanthis Thramboulidis presented the current status of the IEC61499 regarding the academic and industry view. He identified undefined execution semantics that make the development of execution environments a difficult task and a source of incompatibility. He discussed alternatives and proposed solutions to ease integration and briefly described two prototype execution environments based on RTAI (real-time Linux)

Julien Chouinard presented a paper that describes an IEC61499 testbed with 70 cooperating controllers, that was created by ICS Triplex in order to assess the IEC 61499 capabilities and test different types of configurations. Julien Chouinard presented the testbed and three applications they have developed to investigate the IEC61499 capabilities.

Julien Chouinard presented the live demonstration of the three applications: the signal propagation, the train application and the impressive Orchestra application.

SS01C: ISaGRAF live Demonstration on IEC 61499

Thursday Sept 27

Three applications on ISaGRAF were demonstrated in the lobby of the Conference and Cultural Centre.

SS01D: IEC 61499 example applications

CORFU and Archimedes System Platform Demo (see Video)

Two example applications: the Festo MPS system and the Robotic Arm were presented during the conference at the lobby area of the Conference and Cultural Centre.

The three devices used to deploy the Festo MPS application

Presenting the Festo MPS demo

The distribution unit device with Java-AXE

Festo MPS and Robotic Arm Demo Applications (see Video)

The Festo MPS simulator

Download Festo MPS CORFU project - Download Robotic Arm CORFU project

SS01E: Posters

A poster session was organized during Wednesday