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M-BED 2010
CfP
Special Session
at ETFA 10
CfP
Special Session
at ETFA 09
CfP
Special Session
on IEC standards (ETFA
2008)
CfP
Report
Special Session on IEC 61499 (ETFA
2007)
CfP
Report
ETFA
2006
Special Session on IEC 61499
CfP
Program
Track on
Distributed
Intelligent
control for flexible manufacturing
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Kleanthis Thramboulidis has been using the
Object-Technology since 1989 and has
successfully applied it with great success in many research and development
projects, in many different application domains during his participation in
European and National research and development projects (ESPRIT, ESSI, IST,
etc.). Selected Project include the
following
MIM
MIM (Model integrated
Mechatronics), a new paradigm for the model driven development of
Mechatronic Manufacturing systems.
CORFU
CORFU, an IEC61499-compliant framework for the unified development
of distributed Factory Automation systems,
ARCHIMEDES
Archimedes is a system platform under
development as a reference implementation for the MIM paradigm.
REDOM
REDOM is an
OO Language to define and on-line manipulate regulations
in the resource (re)scheduling problem used in the airline domain.
( The
complete list of research and development projects is currently provided
only in Greek,
see
below)
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Current Projects |
Projects Under Preparation |
Past Projects |
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Current Projects |
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MIM : Model Integrated
Mechatronics (Archimedes Project) |
In the context of the Archimedes project,
the MIM architecture was defined. MIM architecture
promotes model integration for manufacturing systems,
not only in implementation space artifacts but also
during the early analysis and design phases of the
development process.
MIM architecture is the heart of the proposed model
integrated paradigm for the development of the next
generation manufacturing systems, that we call Model
Integrated Mechatronics (MIM).
The ΜΙΜ architecture was utilized to define
“Archimedes”, a System Platform that supports the
engineer through a methodology, a framework and a set of
tools to automate the development process of agile
mechatronic manufacturing systems.
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TIKOSU
Project (2009-2011)
Partners:
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Information and
Computer Systems
in Automation Laboratory,
Automation Technology Laboratory, Finnish Centre of
Excellence in Generic Intelligent Machines Research, VTT
Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Subcontract in the context
of TIKOSU, a National Technology Agency of Finland (Tekes)
funded research program. |
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AUKOTON Project
(2008-2009)
Partners: Helsinki University of
Technology (TKK), Information and Computer Systems in
Automation Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology
(TUT), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Subcontract in the context of AUKOTON, a
National Technology Agency of Finland (Tekes) funded
research program. |
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Study and development of DCS system for
real time applications. (2009)
Partners: MASMEC S.r.l. (Italy)
Subcontract in the context of a Masmec
National Project named “E-RACE – Development of a class
of assembly robotized system characterized by
co-operative actuator principle”. |
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PENED 2003
(2005-2009)
Research and development of a system
platform for the automated use of network services
exploiting e-Negotiations.
Partners: Hitachi Europe.
A PENED 2003 research program in the
context of the Operational Program Competitiveness,
2000-2006. This work has been co-funded in part from the
European Union by 75% and from the Hellenic State by
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CORFU Project |
In the context of the CORFU project a
Common Object-oriented Real-time Framework for the
Unified development of distributed control applications
is under development.
A hybrid approach that integrates UML with the Function
Block construct of the IEC61499 standard is adopted.
An Object-Oriented framework has been defined to improve
the engineering process of Industrial Process
Measurement and Control Systems (IPMCSs) in terms of
reliability, development time and degree of automation.
The framework adopts the function block concept, which
is defined by recent IEC standards, and attempts to
increase reusability in both architecture and
functionality by addressing issues such as
interoperability and integrated development of
distributed control systems. The defined framework
embodies an abstract design that is capable to provide
solutions for the family of distributed IPMCSs.
A 4-layer Architecture has been defined with the main
objective to focus on the application and system
persperctives and the realization mapping that is the
mapping of the application components to the system
layer components. This perspective allows the smooth
integration of the CORFU development process with the
network topology and infrastructure, and proved to be
very important in the identification of the key
abstractions that an Engineering Tool must provide as
building blocks of its various diagrams that are used
during the modelling process of Distributed Control
Systems. Our main motivation was distribution
flexibility and location transparency.
In the context of the CORFU project, a first successful
prototype of an IEC-61499 compliant Engineering Support
System (ESS) has been built. This ESS is an integrated
tool that is currently composed of IBM’s Rational Rose
and a custom Function block development tool (CORFU
FBDK).
Current work concentrates on the implementation of the
infrastructure that is required for the execution of
IEC-compliant FB-based control applications, and the
definition of the implementation model.
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Using UML in
communications software |
Object Technology and UML are exploited
for the development of communication software.
A prototype TCP layer of the TCP/IP protocol stack has
been developed for the RTLinux real-time operating
system.
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A constructivism based approach to Teach
Object -Oriented programming
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