Abstract
Despite years of activity, truly open and intelligent
control systems seem still to be a promise of the future.
Agreement on common architectures and application objects
is needed to raise open control systems from exchanging
raw data to the level of real interoperability of off-the
shelf components. Future control platforms and
programming languages should have new built-in mechanisms
that support implementation of intelligent functions,
such as flexible resource management and exception
handling. This article argues that many of these
challenges can be met by taking full advantage of
emerging software engineering technologies. This also
means that the modelling techniques and design practices
of software engineering should be combined with the
traditional ways of thinking in automation.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Automation Technology Review 2001 |
| Place of Publication | Espoo |
| Publisher | VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
| Pages | 34-41 |
| Publication status | Published - 2001 |
| MoE publication type | D2 Article in professional manuals or guides or professional information systems or text book material |
