Modelica as a host language for process/control cosimulation and codesign
Filippo Donida, Alberto Leva · Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha) · 2008
The manuscript describes a project, currently under development at the Politecnico di Milano, the aim of which is to create an integrated environment for the modelling and simulation of process control systems, where the plant(s) are described according to the Modelica object oriented paradigm, while the control systems are specified in an IEC 61131.3compliant language, and automatically translated into algorithmic Modelica. Preliminary results will be reported, given the vast scope of the project, but even at the present stage, interesting discussions are possible on the potentialities and pitfalls of Modelica (and even of object oriented modelling at large) when it comes to describe control algorithms of realistic complexity and size.