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Semantic-Based Approach for Low-Effort Engineering of Automation Systems

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2017 Conferences (OTM 2017)

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Abstract

Industry 4.0, also referred to as the fourth industrial revolution aims at mass customized production with low-cost and shorter production time. Automation Systems (ASs) used in the manufacturing processes should be flexible to meet the constantly changing needs of mass customized production. Low-effort engineering of an Automation System (AS) is an important requirement towards this goal. Secondly, transparency and interoperability of ASs across different domains open a new class of applications. In order to address these challenges we propose a low-effort approach to engineer, configure and re-engineer an AS by employing Web of Things and Semantic Web Technologies. The approach allows for creating semantic specification for a new functionality or an application. It automatically checks whether a target AS can run a new functionality. We developed an engineering tool with a graphical user interface for our approach that enables an engineer to easily interact with an AS when discovering its functionality, engineering, configuring and deploying new functionality on it.

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Notes

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    https://ukmanufacturing2015.eng.cam.ac.uk/proceedings/Industry4.0AN10715.pdf.

  2. 2.

    https://www.plattform-i40.de/I40/Redaktion/EN/Downloads/Publikation/interaction-model-I40-components.pdf.

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    https://ukmanufacturing2015.eng.cam.ac.uk/proceedings/Industry4.0AN10715.pdf.

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    http://us.profinet.com/technology/profinet/.

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    https://opcfoundation.org/about/opc-technologies/opc-ua/.

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    https://www.w3.org/WoT/WG/.

  7. 7.

    https://www.siemens.com/global/en/home/products/automation/industry-software/automation-software/tia-portal.html.

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    http://www.festo-didactic.com/int-en/learning-systems/process-automation/compact-workstation/mps-pa-compact-workstation-with-level,flow-rate,pressure-and-temperature-controlled-systems.htm.

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    http://mqtt.org/documentation.

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    https://www.lua.org/.

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    http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ramsdell/tools/datalog/datalog.html.

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    https://w3c.github.io/wot-scripting-api/.

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    http://docs-europe.electrocomponents.com/webdocs/1536/0900766b815365c3.pdf.

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    https://nodemcu.readthedocs.io/en/master/.

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    https://jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/.

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    https://github.com/thingweb/thingweb-repository.

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/.

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    http://www.qudt.org/.

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    http://schema.org/.

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    https://eclipse.org/californium/.

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    https://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses/multicast-addresses.xhtml.

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    https://eclipse.org/4diac/.

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  1. Siemens AG - Corporate Technology, Munich, Germany

    Aparna Saisree Thuluva & Darko Anicic

  2. TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Aparna Saisree Thuluva & Sebastian Rudolph

  3. Fortiss An-Institut Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Kirill Dorofeev & Monika Wenger

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    Hervé Panetto

  2. Odisee University College, Brussels, Belgium

    Christophe Debruyne

  3. Télécom SudParis, Évry, France

    Walid Gaaloul

  4. Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Mike Papazoglou

  5. Freie Universität Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

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  6. Università degli Studi di Milano, Crema, Italy

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Thuluva, A.S., Dorofeev, K., Wenger, M., Anicic, D., Rudolph, S. (2017). Semantic-Based Approach for Low-Effort Engineering of Automation Systems. In: Panetto, H., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2017 Conferences. OTM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10574. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69459-7_33

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