Design, implementation, and performance analysis of the WorldFIP/ATM local bridge

World factory instrumentation protocol (WorldFIP) is a fieldbus network protocol that provides a link between level zero (sensors/actuators) and level one (field controllers such as programmable logic controllers, etc.) in industrial automation systems. Accessing and connecting the WorldFIP remotely is important for monitoring, maintaining, and controlling devices in a factory in which asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is used as a backbone network. In this study, a transparent WorldPIP/ATM bridge was designed and implemented in order to access devices on WorldFIP via an ATM network. This designed bridge may also provide control of the devices over wide area networks. The bridge's performance was investigated using network simulation software under various message traffic conditions. The results obtained from the simulations showed that the bridge provides real-time communications between WorldFIP and ATM

Virtuaalinen kenttäväylä -Sovellettavuus, teknologiat ja arviointi

In the present-day software and automation development, different methods of virtualization have become popular, as the final hardware is then not required for software development. This allows earlier and faster software process, reduced time to market and more fluent workflow. As distributed automation systems generally rely on fieldbuses of various types, implementing a virtual and fully operational fieldbus is a necessity for efficient utilization of the virtualized system. In this thesis, we take a comprehensive approach to virtual fieldbuses, from concept definition to experimental performance characteristics. We discuss the common behavior of different fieldbuses, list applications for virtual buses and compare possible implementation technologies such as TCP/IP and shared memory. Virtualization tools VirtualBox and QEMU are closely studied, as they bring additional challenges to data transfer. From the practical point of view, the study presents our experiences on implementing a virtual CAN bus for embedded development. With an extensive set of features and platform support in our design, it demonstrates the utilization of multiple technologies. Using the virtual CAN implementation, we then show the measured performance characteristics and evaluate the solution against actual hardware. Potential of virtual bus technology was proven by the performance measurements. Shared memory implementation provided extremely good performance, sufficient for implementing any virtual fieldbus system. It was also found to be efficient in respect to CPU load. Unfortunately, shared memory usually cannot cross virtualization boundaries. TCP was found as the best option for the rest of the use cases. In restricted local Ethernet or between VirtualBox and host OS, it is able to provide latencies under 700µs, similar to hardware performance. Observed bottlenecks were the use of the QEMU emulation tool without optimizations, and slow USB fieldbus adapters. We recommend using virtual fieldbuses in virtualized development and debugging of distributed systems and for automatic system level testing, if timing requirements are not extremely strict. Remote virtual connection to a hardware fieldbus is also seen as a valid application. The technologies and adapters must still be carefully selected for best results

WorldFIP/ ATM Yerel köprü tasarımı ve CAN/PROFIBUS/WorldFIP ağlarının ATM omurga üzerinden arabağlaşımı

06.03.2018 tarihli ve 30352 sayılı Resmi Gazetede yayımlanan “Yükseköğretim Kanunu İle Bazı Kanun Ve Kanun Hükmünde Kararnamelerde Değişiklik Yapılması Hakkında Kanun” ile 18.06.2018 tarihli “Lisansüstü Tezlerin Elektronik Ortamda Toplanması, Düzenlenmesi ve Erişime Açılmasına İlişkin Yönerge” gereğince tam metin erişime açılmıştır.ÖZET Anahtar Kelimeler: Flavonoidler, Flavon Sentezi, Flavanon Sentezi, Silika Jel Destekli NaHS(>4 Katalizörü, Mikrodalga Işıma, Çözücüsüz Ortam Reaksiyonları. Flavonoidler bitki aleminde yaygın olarak bulunan doğal bileşiklerdir. Çok çeşitli biyolojik aktivitelere sahip olmaları nedeniyle bu bileşiklerin sentezine olan ilgi de giderek artmaktadır. Bu çalışmada bazı flavonoid türevlerinin sentezi için yeni yöntemler geliştirilmiştir. İlk olarak, NaHSCVSiCh katalizörlüğünde 1,3-diketon türevlerinden konvansiyonel ısıtma ile flavon sentezi gerçekleştirilmiştir. Daha sonra, aynı reaksiyonlar çözücüsüz ortamda NaHS(VSi02 varlığında mikrodalga ışıma ile denenmiştir. Her iki uygulamada da hem oldukça yüksek verim elde edilmiş, hem de düşük maliyetli, eldesi kolay, güvenli ve kirlilik oluşturmayan bir katalizör kullanılmıştır. Son olarak, kalkon-flavonon izomerizasyonu incelenmiş, başka reaktif kullanmaksızın etandiol içinde 150°C'de bu dönüşümün gerçekleştiği tespit edilmiştir. Elde edilen ürünlerin !H NMR, I3C NMR ve kütle spektrumlan alınarak yapıları doğrulanmıştır.SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SOME FLAVONOIDS SUMMARY Key words: Flavonoids, Synthesis of Flavones, Synthesis of Flavanones, Silica Gel Supported NaHS04 Catalyst, Microwave Irradiation, Solvent-Free Reactions Flavonoids are a group of naturally occuring compounds widely distrubuted in the plant kingdom. Due to their diverse biological avtivities, synthesis of these compounds has a great interest. In this study, new methods were improved for the synthesis of some flavonoids. First of all, starting with 1,3-diketones and using NaHSCvSiCh as the catalyst, synthesis of flavones was examined by conventional heating. The same reactions were also carried out in solvent free conditions by microwave irradiation. These methods not only afforded the products in high yield but also avoided the problems associated with catalyst cost, handling, safety and pollution. At last, chalcone flavanone isomerization was investigated and found that the conversion is possible by heating in ethandiole at 150°C. ]H NMR, i3C NMR and mass spectrums of all the final products were elucidated

WiMAX (IEEE 802.16)-profıbus arabağlaşım elemanının petri ağlarla modellenmesi ve performans analizi

06.03.2018 tarihli ve 30352 sayılı Resmi Gazetede yayımlanan “Yükseköğretim Kanunu İle Bazı Kanun Ve Kanun Hükmünde Kararnamelerde Değişiklik Yapılması Hakkında Kanun” ile 18.06.2018 tarihli “Lisansüstü Tezlerin Elektronik Ortamda Toplanması, Düzenlenmesi ve Erişime Açılmasına İlişkin Yönerge” gereğince tam metin erişime açılmıştır.Endüstriyel kontrol uygulamalarında saha seviyesindeki dağıtık kontrolör cihazların haberleşmesinde sahayolu ağları kullanılmaktadır. PROFIBUS (PROcess FIeld BUS) uluslararası standartlarla (IEC61158, EN50170) tanımlanmış en popüler sahayoludur. Üretim (fabrika), süreç ve bina otomasyon uygulamalarında yaygın olarak kullanılan PROFIBUS, 100 m ile 1200 m mesafede 9.6 kbps ile 12 Mbps arasındaki iletişim hızlarını desteklemektedir. Bu durum, PROFIBUS'ın daha geniş kapsama alanları ve yüksek hızlarda kullanılabilmesi için omurga teknolojisine sahip arabağlaşım elemanlarının kullanımını gerektirir.Arabağlaşım için kullanılan omurga protokolü gereksinimleri gelişen teknolojilerle birlikte değişmektedir. Günümüzde, kurulum kolaylığı ve hareketlilik avantajlarından dolayı kablolu omurga çözümlerine karşılık, kablosuz omurga çözümleri de kullanılmaya başlanmış ve hızla yaygınlaşmaktadır. Kablosuz genişbant omurga teknolojisi olan IEEE 802.16-WiMAX, görüş hattında 50 km'lik bir kapsama alanı, 120 Mbps veri transfer hızı ve farklı servis sınıflarında (UGS, rtPS, nrtPS, BE, ErtPS) hizmet kalitesi sunan bir protokoldür.Bu çalışmada, farklı lokasyonlardaki PROFIBUS segmentlerini IEEE 802.16-WiMAX kablosuz omurga teknolojisi üzerinden UGS servis sınıfı kullanarak birbirine bağlayan bir arabağlaşım birimi önerilmektedir. Bu birimin, senkronizasyon, koşutzamanlılık, kilitlenmeyi önleyebilme, üstel dağılım ve sabit zaman gecikme özellikleri olan Genelleştirilmiş Stokastik Petri Ağlar modeli sunulmaktadır. Ayrıca, model içerisinde PROFIBUS paketlerinin IEEE 802.16 paketleri içerisine kapsüllendiği önerilmektedir.Tasarlanan PROFIBUS/IEEE 802.16-WiMAX arabağlaşım birimi, geçit çıkış tampon boyutu, geçit giriş tampon boyutu, master istasyon jeton tutma süresi ve geçit PROFIBUS ayağı jeton tutma süresi parametrelerine bakılarak değerlendirilmiştir. Benzetimlerden alınan sonuçlar, arabağlaşım biriminin, farklı yükler altında yeterli bir hizmet sağladığını ve fiziksel gerçeklemesini yapacak olan kişiler için de başarımı ölçülebilir bir tasarım modeli sunduğunu göstermektedir.In the application of industrial controlling, fieldbuses are used in the communication of distributed controller devices at field layer. PROFIBUS (PROcess FIeld BUS) which is defined with the international standards (IEC61158, EN50170) is the most popular fieldbus. PROFIBUS which is used frequently in manufacturing (factory), process and building automations, provides datarates from 9.6 kbps to 12 Mbps at distance from 100 to 1200 meters. This situation requires using of internetworking units which has backbone technology, for using PROFIBUS at more coverage area and high datarates.The requirements of a backbone protocol used for internetworking, are changed by the development in technology. Nowadays, because of advantages of easiness in installation and mobility, in addition to the wired backbone solutions, wireless backbone solutions began to be used and rapidly became common. As a wireless broadband backbone technology, IEEE 802.16-WiMAX is a protocol that can serve a 50 km coverage area, a 120 Mbps datarate and a QoS at different service classes (UGS, rtPS, nrtPS, BE, ErtPS) in line-of-sight.In this study, an internetworking unit is proposed that interconnects PROFIBUS segments placed at different locations through a wireless backbone technology of IEEE 802.16-WiMAX by using UGS service class. By the features of synchronization, concurrent, deadlock avoidance, exponential distribution and constant time delay, Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets model of the unit is done. Also in the model, it is proposed that PROFIBUS packets are encapsulated into IEEE 802.16 packets.The designed PROFIBUS/IEEE 802.16-WiMAX internetworking unit is analyzed according to gateway output buffer size, gateway input buffer size, master station token holding time and gateway PROFIBUS side token holding time parameters. The outputs of simulations show that internetworking unit can support a sufficient service under different loads and present a designed model with a measurable performance for the people who want to implement it physically

Managing Device and Platform Heterogeneity through the Web of Things

The chaotic growth of the IoT determined a fragmented landscape with a huge number of devices, technologies, and platforms available on the market, and consequential issues of interoperability on many system deployments. The Web of Things (WoT) architecture recently proposed by the W3C consortium constitutes a novel solution to enable interoperability across IoT Platforms and application domains. At the same time, in order to see an effective improvement, a wide adoption of the W3C WoT solutions from the academic and industrial communities is required; this translates into the need of accurate and complete support tools to ease the deployment of W3C WoT applications, as well as reference guidelines about how to enable the WoT on top of existing IoT scenarios and how to deploy WoT scenarios from scratch. In this thesis, we bring three main contributions for filling such gap: (1) we introduce the WoT Store, a novel platform for managing and easing the deployment of Things and applications on the W3C WoT, and additional strategies for bringing old legacy IoT systems into the WoT. The WoT Store allows the dynamic discovery of the resources available in the environment, i.e. the Things, and to interact with each of them through a dashboard by visualizing their properties, executing commands, or observing the notifications produced. (2) We map three different IoT scenarios to WoT scenarios: a generic heterogeneous environmental monitoring scenario, a structural health monitoring scenario and an Industry4.0 scenario. (3) We make proposals to improve both the W3C standard and the node-wot software stack design: in the first case, new vocabularies are needed in order to handle particular protocols employed in industrial scenarios, while in the second case we present some contributions required for the dynamic instantiation and the migration of Web Things and WoT services in a cloud-to-edge continuum environment

Using the ethernet protocol for real-time communications in embedded systems

Doutoramento em Engenharia ElectrotécnicaOs Sistemas Computacionais de Controlo Distribuído (SCCD) estão muito disseminados em aplicações que vão desde o controlo de processos e manufactura a automóveis, aviões e robôs. Muitas aplicações são de natureza tempo-real, ou seja, impõem fortes restrições às propriedades subjacentes aos sistemas de controlo, gerando a necessidade de fornecer um comportamento temporal previsível durante períodos alargados de tempo. Em particular, dependendo da aplicação, uma falha em garantir as restrições pode causar importantes perdas económicas ou mesmo pôr vidas humanas em risco. Actualmente, a quantidade e funcionalidade dos modernos SCCD têm crescido firmemente. Esta evolução é motivada por uma nova classe de aplicações que requer maior demanda de recursos tais como aplicações de multimedia (por exemplo visão), bem como pela tendência em usar grande número de processadres simples e interconectados, em vez de poucos e poderosos processadores, encapsulando cada funcionalidade num único processador. Consequentemente, a quantidade de informação que deve ser trocada entre os nós da rede também cresceu drasticamente nos últimos anos e está agora atingindo os limites que podem ser obtidos por tradicionais barramentos de campo, como por exempo CAN, WorldFIP, PROFIBUS. Outras alternativas são pois requeridas para suportar a necessidade de largura de banda e a manutenção de exigências dos sistemas de comunicação tempo-real: previsibilidade, pontualidade, atraso e variação de período limitados. Uma das linhas de trabalho tem apostado na Ethernet, tirando vantagem dos baixos custos dos circuitos, da elevada largura de banda, da fácil integração com a Internet, e da simplicidade em promover expansões e compatibilidade com redes usadas na estrutura administrativa das empresas industriais. Porém, o mecanismo padronizado de acesso ao meio da Ethernet (CSMA/CD) é destrutivo e não determinístico, o que impede seu uso directo ao nível de campo ou pelo menos em aplicações de comunicação tempo-real. Apesar disso, muitas abordagens diferentes têm sido propostas e usadas para obter comportamento tempo-real em Ethernet. As abordagens actuais para dotar de comportamento tempo-real Ethernet partilhada apresentam desvantagens tais como: exigência de hardware especializado, fornecimento de garantias temporais estatísticas, ineficiência na utilização da largura de banda ou na reposta tempo-real. São ainda por vezes inflexíveis com respeito às propriedades de tráfego bem como com as políticas de escalonamento. Podem exigir processadores com elevado poder de cálculo. Finalmente não permitem que estações tempo-real possam coexistir com estações Ethernet standard no mesmo segmento. Uma proposta recente, o algoritmo hBEB, permite a coexistência de estações tempo-real e standard no mesmo segmento. Contudo, apenas uma estação tempo-real pode estar activa, o que é inaceitável para aplicações de automação e controlo. Esta tese discute uma nova solução para promover tempo-real em Ethernet partilhada, baseando-se na passagem implícita de testemunho de forma similar à usada pelo protocolo P-NET. Esta técnica é um mecanismo de acesso ao meio físico pouco exigente em termos de processamento, sendo portanto adequada para implementar uma rede de dispositivos baseados em processadores de baixo poder de cálculo e controladores Ethernet standard. Esta tese apresenta ainda uma proposta de implementação do VTPE em IP core para superar algumas dificuldades derivadas de funcionalidades que não são suportadas por controladores standard, nomeadamente a arbitragem do meio físico durante a transmissão de uma trama. Esta nova proposta pode aumentar muito a eficiência do VTPE no uso da largura de banda. O VTPE, assim como P-NET ou protocolos similares, permite a uma estação apenas comunicar uma vez por cada circulação do testemunho. Esta imposição pode causar bloqueios de comunicação por períodos inaceitáveis em aplicações com tráfego isócrono, por exemplo multimedia. Uma solução proposta permite que uma estação possa aceder ao meio físico mais de uma vez por cada circulação do token. Os resultados experimentais a as análises desenvolvidas mostram que o bloqueio pode ser drasticamente reduzido. Por último esta tese discute uma variante do protocolo VTPE, o VTPE/h- BEB, que permite que mais de uma estação hBEB possa coexistir com diversas estações Ethernet standard num mesmo segmento partilhado. Um demonstrador para prova de conceito bem como uma aplicação foram também implementados.Distributed Computer-Control Systems (DCCS) are widely disseminated in applications ranging from automation and control to automotive, avionics and robotics. Many of these applications are real-time, posing stringent constraints to the properties of underlying control systems, which arise from the need to provide predictable behaviour during extended time periods. Depending on the particular type of application, a failure to meet these constraints can cause important economic losses or can even put human life in risk. Currently the number and functionality of modern DCCSs have been increasing steadily. This evolution has been motivated for a new class of applications of more resource demanding applications, such as multimedia (e.g. machine vision), as well as by the trend to use large numbers of simple interconnected processors, instead of a few powerful ones, encapsulating each functionality in one single processor. Consequently, the amount of information that must be exchanged among the network nodes has also increased dramatically and is now reaching the limits achievable by traditional fieldbuses. Therefore, other alternatives are required to support higher bandwidth demands while keeping the main requirements of a real-time communication system: predictability, timeliness, bounded delays and jitter. Efforts have been made with Ethernet to take advantage of the low cost of the silicon, high bandwidth, easy integration with the Internet, easy expansion and compatibility with the networks used at higher layers in the factory structure. However its standardized media access control (CSMA/CD) is destructive and not deterministic, impairing its direct use at field level at least for real-time communication. Despite this, many solutions have been proposed to achieve real-time behavior in Ethernet. However they present several disadvantages: requiring specialized hardware, providing statistical timeliness guarantees only, being bandwidth or response-time inefficient, being inflexible concerning traffic properties and/or scheduling policy, or finally not allowing real-time stations to coexist with standard Ethernet stations in the same segment. A recent proposal, the hBEB algorithm, allows the coexistence of real-time and standard Ethernet stations in the same shared segment. However hBEB limits at most one real-time station per segment which is unacceptable for applications in industrial automation and process control. This thesis discusses a new real-time shared Ethernet solution based on the virtual token passing technique similarly to the one used by the P-NET protocol. This technique is a medium access control mechanism that requires small processing power, being suitable to implement devices based on processors with small processing power. The solution is called Virtual Token Passing Ethernet or VTPE. This proposal discusses the modifications required in the Ethernet frame format, the temporal analysis to guarantee real-time communication and the implementation of two demonstrators based on microcontrollers and standard Ethernet controllers. This thesis also presents a proposal to implement VTPE in an IP Core to overcome some difficulties derived from limitations of standard Ethernet controllers, namely to allow medium access control during a frame transmission. This proposal can increase the bandwidth efficiency of VTPE. VTPE, as well as P-NET or any other protocol based on circular token rotation technique, only allows a station to communicate once for each token round. This design imposition can cause unacceptable communication blocking in applications with isochronous traffic such as multimedia. An improvement in the VTPE proposal enables a station to access the medium more than once per token round. The experimental results as well as the temporal analysis show that the blocking can be drastically reduced. This improvement can also be used in the P-NET protocol. Finally this thesis proposes a variant of VTPE, named VTPE/hBEB, to be implemented in Ethernet controllers that are able to support the hBEB algorithm. The VTPE/hBEB allows more than one hBEB station to coexist with several standard Ethernet stations in the same shared Ethernet segment. A demonstrator for the VTPE/hBEB validation, as well as an application, are also presented and discussed