Fieldbus Technology
Subtitle: Industrial Network Standards for Real-Time Distributed Control
By: edited by Nitaigour Premchand Mahalik
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9783642072840; 9783662072196
Subjects: Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Telecommunication; Electronics; Data transmission systems
Description: Fieldbus Technology (FT), an enabling platform has already emerged in order to cater the need for sophisticated and flexible control and as a matter of fact it has becoming the preferred choice for the next generation real-time automation and control solutions. This book incorporates a selection of research and development papers. Its scope is on history and background, contemporary standards, underlying architecture, comparison between different Fieldbus systems, applications, latest innovations, new trends as well as on compatibility, interoperability, and interchangeability.
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Table of contents: title: Fieldbus and Contemporary Standards; title: The Industrial Ethernet Protocol Wars: Fieldbus Revisited; title: Real-Time Characteristics of the Foundation Fieldbus Protocol; title: Components Based DCS Design Method: An Application of Fieldbus Technology; title: Fieldbus for Control and Diagnostics; title: Modelling and Real-time Control of Flexible Conveyor Systems (FCS) for Automated Assembly; title: Control Networks and the Internet; title: The SERCOS InterfaceTM for Digital Motion Control; title: Control of Fieldbus-based Systems Via the Internet; title: CORBA-based Middleware for the CAN; title: A Synchronous Model for Fieldbus Systems; title: Advanced Functions for Fieldbus Cased Integrated Control Systems; title: Real-Time Fieldbus Communication Using Foundation Fieldbus; title: Foundation Fieldbus and Its Interoperability; title: Distributed Real-Time Control Systems Using CAN Bus; title: Vertically Configurable Home Network Architecture and Related Middleware for Simultaneously Supporting Control Network and Multimedia Network in Home; title: Electromagnetic Compatibility of Fieldbus Communication; title: Communication Protocols for Application in Agricultural Vehicles; title: P-NET: European Fieldbus Standard; title: The INTERBUS; title: Channel Backlog Estimation in Lon Works; title: The WorldFIP; title: Robust and Flexible Control: The CAN Bus; title: Fault Correcting and Temporally Predictable Fieldbus Communication; title: Integrated Advanced Design Strategy for High-Speed Spindle Systems: Application of Fieldbus Technology in Mechatronic Systems.