Modelling and implementing the control of automated production systems using statecharts and PLC programming languages
José Machado, Farid Louni, Jean-Marc Faure, Jean-Jacques Lesage, Jaime C.L. Ferreira Da Silva, Jean-Marc Roussel · 2001
This paper is concerned with the applicability of statecharts for the discrete control of production systems. We show first how it is possible to build a control model described with the statecharts formalism and taking into account : The operating modes and the physical structure of the system; The behaviour of different kinds of actuators. Then we present a method enabling one to obtain a PLC program in IEC 61131-3 languages from the statecharts model previously elaborated. An application example illustrates these two points.