Enhancing Process Control in Industry 4.0 Scenarios using Cyber-Physical Systems

Borja Bordel Sánchez, Ramón Alcarria, Diego Sánchez de Rivera, Álvaro Sánchez-Picot
2016 Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications  
One of the most interesting applications of Industry 4.0 paradigm is enhanced process control. Traditionally, process control solutions based on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consider a top-down view where processes are represented as executable high-level descriptions. However, most times industrial processes follow a bottom-up model where processes are executed by low-level devices which are hard-programmed with the process to be executed. Thus, high-level components only may supervise the
more » ... ess execution as devices cannot modify dynamically their behavior. Therefore, in this paper we propose a vertical CPS-based solution (including a reference and a functional architecture) adequate to perform enhanced process control in Industry 4.0 scenarios with a bottom-up view. The proposed solution employs an event-driven service-based architecture where control is performed by means of finite state machines. Furthermore, an experimental validation is provided proving that in more than 97% of cases the proposed solution allows a stable and effective control.
doi:10.22667/jowua.2016.12.31.041 dblp:journals/jowua/CarnianiCMMM16a fatcat:3tvjmafbxvgfvchqzid2vnec6u