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Programmable Logic Controllers

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Introduction

Since the 1970s, the programmable logic controller (PLC) has been the primary workhorse of industrial automation. For a long time, it has provided a distinct field of research, development, and application, mainly for control engineering. This area has produced its own design methods and programming languages. Due to its importance for industrial application, a lot of these methods have been standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Currently the most influential standards are IEC 61131 (John and Tiegelkamp 2010) and IEC 61499 (Vyatkin 2011). While the latter one is dedicated to distributed systems, IEC 61131 covers the PLC as such. This standard consists of several parts. The most important ones are:

Part 1:

: General information. This part covers the CONCEPTof PLCs. It describes the general idea and typical functionalities, most importantly, the cyclic processing of the application program working on a stored image of the input and output...

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  1. Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Georg Frey

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    John Baillieul

  2. Automation and Control Solutions, Honeywell, Golden Valley, Minnesota, USA

    Tariq Samad

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Frey, G. (2014). Programmable Logic Controllers. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5102-9_257-1

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