Control of Heterogeneus Automation Systems

CHAT DIT-PRJ-08-069

Homepage http://www.ict-chat.eu/
Status NOT active project
DISI role Partner
Project type Research Project
Dimension International
Acquisition date 2008-12-04
Start date 2008-09-01
End date 2011-09-01

Project details

Project astract Scalability, reconfigurability, and security are three aspects of paramount importance in develop-<br/>ing efficient, predictable, and safe control architectures for large-scale networked industrial automa-<br/>tion. At present, the state of control systems technology is such that the supervision and control of lar-<br/>ger and more complex plants cannot be achieved without considerable costs in terms of hard infra-<br/>structure and software development. CHAT is a research project that will explore the research and en-<br/>gineering challenges inherent in the development of algorithms, protocols and procedures for next-<br/>generation distributed control systems, to drastically to reduce infrastructure, maintenance and recon-<br/>figuration costs. The concept at the core of CHAT is that of an embedded control design space, within<br/>which fundamental research questions on the performance achievable by a certain subsystem with a<br/>given quality of networked control can be formalised and investigated. The goal is to encapsulate sub-<br/>systems in automation components, integrating these seamlessly into more abstract levels of the Dis-<br/>tributed Control architecture.<br/>
Keywords control systems, middleware, distributed systems
Fundings 2299560 €
Partners
  • DIT - UniTN
  • University of Pisa
  • University of Lecce
  • Siemens AG
  • University College London
  • Lund University
  • ELSAG DATAMAT
  • SOFIDEL S.p.A.

DISI Sub-project details

Project astract DISI is responsible of WP3 (Networked control). It has also a substantial role in WP4 (middleware), Wp2 (distributed algorithms) and WP5 (security)
Keywords control, distributed systems, embedded systems, robotics
Fundings 180059 €
Manager Luigi Palopoli