Soft-commissioning: hardware-in-the-loop-based verification of controller software

The basic idea of Soft-Commissioning (SoftCom) is to test industrial control software by connecting a controller, e. g. a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) to a commercial discrete event simulator (DES), which provides system reactions and sensor signals similar to the behavior of real hardware, e. g. an industrial manufacturing line. In order to establish a connection between simulator and PLC, a modular architecture was developed. The basis of this modular system is a communication protocol common to all members. The two basic modules are the I/O Devices Driver (IODD), which is used to interface between the I/O hardware and the SoftCom protocol, and the Simulator to real World Interface (SWI). The SWI is used to link the simulator to the SoftCom system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: WSC
• Authors: Harald Schludermann, Thomas Kirchmair, Markus Vorderwinkler
• Keywords: Discrete Event Simulator, Modeling And Simulation, Programmable Logic Controller, Simulator, WSC 2000