FYI. Some parts are highly relevant for Orocos, especially in the context
of "Model Driven Engineering" and Eclipse integration...
Herman
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:28:41 +0200
From: Rooker Martijn <Martijn [dot] Rooker [..] ...>
To: "euron-dist [..] ..." <euron-dist [..] ...>
Subject: [euron-dist] Open Source Software for Automation and Robotics
Dear colleagues,
we want to introduce the open source initiative 4DIAC ? Framework for Distributed Industrial Automation and Control for the development of industrial and robotic applications.
The domain of automation industry and robotics is characterised by a highly proprietary environment. Different platforms and different tools are in use. In most cases there is no interoperability between different solutions of different vendors. Existing standards provides a very small basis for common modelling of control programs, but platforms and tools are not able to interoperate.
The general aim of the 4DIAC initiative is to provide a framework that gives the opportunity to establish an automation and control environment based on the targets portability, configurability and interoperability. The following two open source projects are in the focus of the 4DIAC initiative:
* FORTE (4DIAC-RTE): The FORTE is a small portable implementation of a runtime environment targeting small embedded control devices (16/32 Bit). It provides the execution of basic function blocks, composite function blocks, and service interface function blocks. The following two versions are supported: A PC based version tested on i386 (Cygwin and Linux) and PPC (Linux), and an embedded ARM7 based version.
* 4DIAC-IDE: The 4DIAC-IDE provides an extensible engineering environment for modelling distributed control applications. A hardware capability definition allows the modelling of control hardware and its interconnections through networks. The modelled applications can be downloaded to distributed field devices. The basis of the 4DIAC-IDE is the Eclipse framework. This allows that other plug-ins can easily be applied to the 4DIAC-IDE providing new or extended functionality.
Details about the framework are available at http://www.fordiac.org or at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fordiac.
Best regards,
Martijn Rooker
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Martijn N. Rooker, Ph.D.
Robotics and Adaptive Systems
PROFACTOR GmbH
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