Assistant Professorship fr

Sichere Eingebettete Systeme

Technische Universitt Mnchen
Prof. Dr. Julien Provost
Project description:
The domain of automation industry is currently characterized by a highly
monolithic environment. In most cases there is no interoperability between
different solutions offered by different vendors. As a first step, the PLCOpen
association provides a vendor-independent framework based on the IEC
61131-3 standard in order to ease interoperability and data exchange
between heterogeneous systems.
However, in order to further increase interoperability, portability and reconfigurability of automation control
solutions, there is a need to investigate the use of alternative solutions to build distributed embedded devices.
This project conducted in collaboration with Dr. Alois Zoitl, fortiss GmbH, is aiming at evaluating the following
open-source environments:
4DIAC, based on the IEC 61499 standard
Erlang, designed by Ericson to support distributed, fault-tolerant applications
Qualities and skills:
Education in Automation engineering or Computer science
Interest or skills in programming
Evaluation of Runtime Environments
for Distributed Embedded Devices in
Industrial Automation (DA/MA/BA/SA)
Prof. Dr. Julien Provost Tel.: +49 (0) 89 / 289 16424
Safe Embedded Systems E-Mail: provost@ses.mw.tum.de