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EPSRC Reference: GR/M55299/01
Title: PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM INTEGRATION
Principal Investigator: Fleming, Professor PJ
Other Investigators:
Bennett, Dr S
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:
BICC Cambridge Control Ltd Eurotherm Process Automation Ltd
Field Electronics Hewlett Packard Inc Industrial Control Systems
Object Automation UK Ltd Rockwell Automotive LVS UK Ltd Wind River Systems (UK) Ltd
Department: Automatic Control and Systems Eng
Organisation: University of Sheffield
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 15 September 1999 Ends: 14 September 2002 Value (£): 148,621
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Mathematical Aspects of OR Software Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Aerospace, Defence and Marine Manufacturing
Creative Industries Technical Consultancy
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This wide-ranging and ambitous research will extend Distributed Control Systems (DCS) to its logical conclusion by delivering software support architectures for fully decentralised process control (so called Real DCS). Achievement of Real DCS target-software and development architectures requires multi-disciplinary research drawing on expertise in systems, software and control engineering.The research aims will be achieved through the following four work packages:elaboration, formalisation and refinement of an Integrated Design Notation for process control applications (University of Sheffield),co-simulation of multiple views of the system under development each with potentially non-uniform abstraction levels (University of Sheffield with University of Wales, Bangor),automatic generation of optimised process control software and hard real-time extensions to a Java virtual machine (University of Wales, Bangor), andcontrol algorithms structuring to meet engineering constraints associated with the application specific issues (UMIST).
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