| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R13371/01 |
| Title: |
Design of Internet-Based Process Control |
| Principal Investigator: |
Yang, Professor S |
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Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
Loughborough University |
| Scheme: |
Fast Stream |
| Starts: |
01 June 2001 |
Ends: |
31 December 2002 |
Value (£): |
62,643
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In recent years, the Internet has proved a powerful tool for distributed collaborative work. The emerging Internet technologies have the potential to apply the advantages of this way of working to the high-level control of process plants. The advantages include: (1) allowing remote monitoring and adjustment of plants, (2) allowing collaboration between skilled plant managers situated in geographically diverse locations, (3) allowing the business to relocate the physical location of plant management staff easily in response to business needs.However, very little research work has been done to date aimed at developing systematic design methods using this technology or for the design of Internet-based process control systems. The design methodologies for the local computer-based control system are not appropriate for Internet-based control system, as they do not consider the Internet environment issues such as Web-based delay, Web-based safety, Web-based interface, and uncertain users. The aim of this project is to develop a methodology for the design of Internet-based control systems for process plants, and to demonstrate its efficacy through a simulator-based test environment and an experimental rig. Five basic issues that arise from Web-related features of Internet-based process control will be investigated: requirement specification, architecture selection, Web-based interface design, safe control, and system evaluation & safety check.
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