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This paper describes a combination of techniques from control engineering and formal methods in order to specify and implement control systems for batch process operations. It extends previous work by providing a non-trivial specification for the top-level polling loop of a control system, and defining composition techniques for controllers.
Batch process operations are common in industrial practice. Automated manufacturing systems and chemical processing are two examples. Common features of these operations enable us to provide a generic method for the formalisation of controllers for a large class of such systems, using B and procedural controller synthesis.
We give examples from case studies to illustrate the techniques.
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Lano, K., Kan, P., Sanchez, A. (1998). Compositional Specification of Controllers for Batch Process Operations. In: Bowen, J.P., Fett, A., Hinchey, M.G. (eds) ZUM ’98: The Z Formal Specification Notation. ZUM 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1493. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49676-2_18
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