Scalable fault-tolerant environment for controlling complex technological objects based on a peer-to-peer distributed architecture
R. V. Nestulya, Oleg V. Serdyukov, A. N. Skvortsov · Optoelectronics Instrumentation and Data Processing · 2013
A new approach to distributed control systems (DCS’s) designed for automation of large, functionally complex technological objects with a large volume of input/output channels up to 10 4 and more is developed and tested. The novelty of the proposed approach is to apply a common information highway for the interaction of all elements of the control system (input/output devices, control computers, workstations, and servers) or peer-to-peer distributed control environment (PDCE). The results are implemented in the Tornado-N DCS and applied in a number of power plants in Russia and abroad. The advantages of control systems with the PDCE architecture in flexibility, scalability, fault-tolerance, and performance over the classical multilevel systems are confirmed in practice.