Advanced equipment control system
US5546301A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 19, 1994 |
| Grant date | Aug 13, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 19, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/46
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The present invention relates to a control solution development environment coupled to a runtime environment constructed to insulate the control solution designer as well as the developed control applications from both the hardware and the operating system. This insulation frees the designer from having to deal with a tangle of control and operating system commands and considerations. The runtime environment manages the details of the process system resource and task allocation to implement the control strategies. Since the runtime environment insulates the developed control applications from changes in operating systems and hardware, applications developed to run in this environment are both reusable and portable. The runtime environment is scaleable, fault-tolerant, allows dynamic reconfiguration of the system, integration of diverse sensors and actuators and enables distributed control strategies. The runtime environment is built on C++ software language, is hostable on a variety of industry-standard computer operating systems, and readily accommodates legacy and third-party software tools.
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