Fieldbus Technology: Industrial Network Standards for Real-Time Distributed Control

by Nitaigour P. Mahalik (Editor)

Overview

Fieldbus Technology (FT), an enabling platform has already emerged in order to cater the need for sophisticated and flexible control and as a matter of fact it has becoming the preferred choice for the next generation real-time automation and control solutions. This book incorporates a selection of research and development papers. Its scope is on history and background, contemporary standards, underlying architecture, comparison between different Fieldbus systems, applications, latest innovations, new trends as well as on compatibility, interoperability, and interchangeability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642072840
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

1 Fieldbus and Contemporary Standards.- 2 Industrial Ethernet Prool Wars: Fieldbus Revisited.- 3 Real-time Characteristics of the Foundation Fieldbus Prool.- 4 Components Based DCS Design Method.- 5 Fieldbus for Control and Diagnostics.- 6 Control of Flexible Conveyor Systems for Automated Assembly.- 7 Control Networks and the Internet.- 8 The SERCOS Interface™ for Digital Motion Control.- 9 Control of Fieldbus-based Systems Via the Internet.- 10 CORBA-based Middleware for the CAN.- 11 A Synchronous Model for Fieldbus Systems.- 12 Advanced Functions for Fieldbus Cased Integrated Control Systems.- 13 Real-time Communication Using Foundation Fieldbus.- 14 Foundation Fieldbus and Its Interoperability.- 15 Distributed Real-time Control Systems Using CAN Bus.- 16 Network Architecture for Home Automation.- 17 Electromagnetic Compatibility of Fieldbus Communication.- 18 Communication Prools for Application in Agricultural Vehicles.- 19 P-NET: European Fieldbus Standard.- 20 The INTERBUS.- 21 Channel Backlog Estimation in LonWorks®.- 22 The WorldFIP.- 23 Some Studies on CAN Fieldbus.- 24 Fault Correcting and Temporally Predictable Fieldbus Communication.- 25 Application of Fieldbus Technology in Mechatronic Systems.