Un entorno virtual con controladores lógicos programables: aplicación en evaluación de estrategias de control

[EN] This article describes a proposal for a virtual environment to be used in the evaluation of control strategies in programmable logic controllers (PLCs). For this purpose, a process simulation manager, which controls the digital model, and a component communication manager, which integrates the...

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Autores: Rivero-Contreras, Rogelio E., Merino, Alejandro, Zamarreño, Jesús M., Vilas, Carlos, Tadeo, Fernando
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/213808
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/213808
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Programmable logic devices
Protocols
Control system
Software-in-the-loop
Virtual enviroment
Digital model
Controladores lógicos programables
Protocolos
Sistemas de Control
Entorno virtual
Modelo digital
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Sumario:[EN] This article describes a proposal for a virtual environment to be used in the evaluation of control strategies in programmable logic controllers (PLCs). For this purpose, a process simulation manager, which controls the digital model, and a component communication manager, which integrates the elements of the virtual environment (virtual PLC and digital model) through the industrial communication protocol OPC UA, have been developed. The virtual environment has been validated through a case study that considers as a process system a food sterilization unit that requires discrete and continuous control logic to perform its operation. This allows the control logic in the virtual environment to be verified in a simulation environment for subsequent scalability to the real process using protocols suitable for field devices