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A Three-Tier Design Approach for a Family of Large AC Drive Control Systems

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Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families (ARES 1998)

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Software for large embedded systems (e.g. control systems for locomotives or large industrial drives) consumes a steadily increasing proportion of the engineering costs for development and maintenance. For this reason our goal is to share the effort by developing software that fits for several related products or product families. Not only the implementation, but also the software architecture and design shall be reused in similar applications. Replacing a hardware component or adding a customer desired feature in an application shall result in very limited changes in the control system software. As a solution for this common situation this paper defines a layered software architecture, which is designed for maximum reuse on different levels. The paper illustrates the internals of the common software layer, describes how it is used to build variants for different drive topologies, and how the lower layers were designed for fast application building.

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  1. Computer Engineering Dept., ABB Corporate Research LTD, CH-5405, Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland

    Peter Kolb

  2. R&D Drives and Power Electronics, ABB Industrie AG, CH-5300, Turgi, Switzerland

    Beat Huber

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  1. Philips Research Laboratories, Prof. Holstlaan 4, 5656 AA, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Frank van der Linden

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Kolb, P., Huber, B. (1998). A Three-Tier Design Approach for a Family of Large AC Drive Control Systems. In: van der Linden, F. (eds) Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families. ARES 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1429. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68383-6_5

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