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Architecture design for internet-based control systems

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The Internet is playing an important role in information retrieval, and additionally industrial process manipulation. This paper describes an approach to writing requirements specifications for Internet-based control systems, from which architectures can be derived. The requirements specifications developed are described in terms of a functional model, which is then extended to form an information architecture. Distinct from the functional model, the information architecture provides an indication as to the architectural structure of subsequently developed Internet-based control systems. Three general control structures are generated from the analysis of an information architecture. An integrated-distributed architecture is derived as an ideal implementation, in which a control system is linked to the Internet at all levels of a control system hierarchy.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK

    Shuanghua Yang

  2. Department of Computer Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, PRC

    Liansheng Tan

  3. School of Electronics, University of Glamorgan, Prontypridd, CF 371DL, UK

    Guo-Ping Liu

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This work was supported in part by the EPSRC under Grant GR/R13371/01.

Shuanghua Yang is Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Department at Loughborough University. He is also an overseas professor in Central China Normal University since 2001. His research interests include Internet-based control, Internet congestion control, safety critical systems, and artificial intelligence. He received his B.Eng in instrument & control and M.Eng in control engineering in 1983, and 1986, respectively, from Petroleum University, and his PhD in Control Engineering in 1991 from Zhejiang University. He is a member of Institute of Measurement & Control (MInstMC) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) in the UK. He is also a member of the adviser college of British Higher Education Link Programme. He has more than 120 publications including 55 refereed journal papers on control and computer engineering and authored one book and one chapter in a book.

Liansheng Tan is a Full Professor and Head of Department in Department of Computer Science, Central China Normal University, PR China. Professor Tan received his PhD degree from Loughborough University in the UK in 1999. He was doing research in computer communication network in School of Information Technology and Engineering at University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2001 and a visiting professor at Loughborough University in 2002. He has published over forty referred papers. His research interests are in modelling, analysis and performance evaluation of computer communication networks, their protocols, services and interconnection architectures. These include multimedia networks, local area networks, metropolitan area networks, broadband networks and switching architectures for congestion control. Professor Tan is also interested in queuing theory, simulations, computational algorithms and their applications in high-speed computer communication networks.

Guo-Ping Liu received his B.Eng and M.Eng degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the Central South University of Technology in China in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and his Ph.D degree in control engineering from the Control Systems Centre at UMIST in the UK in 1992. He is currently a professor in control systems in the School of Electronics at the University of Glamorgan in the UK. He is senior member of IEEE. He has more than 200 publications and authored/co-authored 6 books on control systems. His main research interests include networked control systems, nonlinear identification and control, multiobjective optimal control and decisionmaking, and bioinformatics.

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Yang, S., Tan, L. & Liu, GP. Architecture design for internet-based control systems. Int J Automat Comput 1, 1–9 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-004-0001-1

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