Ha. Barker, OPEN ENVIRONMENTS AND OBJECT-ORIENTED METHODS FOR COMPUTER-AIDED CONTROL-SYSTEM DESIGN, Control engineering practice, 3(3), 1995, pp. 347-356
Citations number
59
Categorie Soggetti
Controlo Theory & Cybernetics","Robotics & Automatic Control
Two current trends in the computer industry are towards open systems a
nd object-oriented methods. Both are important for computer-aided cont
rol system design. The success of computer-aided software engineering
is attributed to its open environment, based on a reference model that
involves a service-oriented framework serving a set of tools. An adap
tation of this reference model is proposed for computer-aided engineer
ing in general and computer-aided control engineering in particular. O
bject-oriented methods are described, and their roles in the framework
services are considered. Their particular importance for the modellin
g services of a computer-aided control engineering environment is esta
blished. It is concluded that a combination of open environments and o
bject-oriented methods provides a unique opportunity for progress in c
omputer-aided control system design that needs to be grasped if the wo
rld-wide control community is to benefit.