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1、机械类外文翻译可视化的PLC程序使用XMLVisualization of PLC Programs using XML Abstract - Due to the growing complexity of PLC programs there is an increasing interest in the application of formal methods in this area. Formal methods allow rigid proving of system properties in verification and validation. One way to

2、apply formal methods is to utilize a formal design approach in PLC programming. However, for existing software that has to be optimized, changed, or ported to new systems .There is the need for an approach that can start from a given PLC program. Therefore, formalization of PLC programs is a topic o

3、f current research. The paper outlines a re-engineering approach based on the formalization of PLC programs. The transformation into a vendor independent format and the visualization of the structure of PLC programs is identified as an important intermediate step in this process. It is shown how XML

4、 and corresponding technologies can be used for the formalization and visualization of an existing PLC program. I. INTRODUCTIONProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are a special type of computers that are used in industrial and safety critical applications. The purpose of a PLC is to control a part

5、icular process, or a collection of processes, by producing electrical control signals in response to electrical process- related inputs signals. The systems controlled by PLCs vary tremendously, with applications in manufacturing, chemical process control, machining, transportation, power distributi

6、on, and many other fields. Automation applications can range in complexity from a simple panel to operate the lights and motorized window shades in a conference room to completely automated manufacturing lines.With the widening of their application horizon， PLC programs are being subject to increase

7、d complexity and high quality demands especially for safety-critical applications. The growing complexity of the applications within the compliance of limited development time as well as the reusability of existing software or PLC modules requires a formal approach to be developed I. Ensuring the hi

8、gh quality demands requires verification and validation procedures as well as analysis and simulation of existing systems to be carried out 2. One of the important fields for the formalization of PLC programs that have been growing up in recent time is Reverse-engineering 3. Reverse Engineering is a

9、 process of evaluating something to understand how it works in order to duplicate or enhance it. While the reuse of PLC codes is being established as a tool for combating the complexity of PLC programs, Reverse Engineering is supposed to receive increased importance in the coming years especially if

10、 exiting hardware has to be replaced by new hardware with different programming environmentsVisualization of existing PLC programs is an important intermediate step of Reverse Engineering. The paper provides an approach towards the visualization of PLC programs using XML which is an important approa

11、ch for the orientation and better understanding for engineers working with PLC programs. The paper is structured as follows. First, a short introduction to PLCs and the corresponding programming techniques according to the IEC 61131-3 standard is given. In Section an approach for Re-engineering base

12、d on formalization of PLC programs is introduced. The transformation of the PLC code into a vendor independent format is identified as an important first step in this process. XML and corresponding technologies such as XSL and XSLT that can be used in this transformation are presented in Section IV.

13、 Section V presents the application of XML for the visualization of PLC programs and illustrates the approach with an example. The final Section summarizes the results and gives an outlook on future work in this ongoing project. PLC AND IEC 61131Since its inception in the early 70s the PLC received

14、increasing attention due to its success in fulfilling the objective of replacing hard-wired control equipments at machines. Eventually it grew up as a distinct field of application, research and development, mainly for Control Engineering. IEC 61 131 is the first real endeavour to standardize PLC pr

15、ogramming languages for industrial automation. In I993 the International Electrotechnical Commission 4 published the IEC 61131 Intemational Standard for Programmable Controllers. Before the standardization PLC programming languages were being developed as proprietary programming languages usable to

16、PLCs of a special vendor. But in order to enhance compatibility, openness and interoperability among different products as well as to promote the development of tools and methodologies with respect to a fixed set of notations the IEC 61131 standard evolved. The third part of this standard defines a

17、suit of five programming languages:Instruction List (IL) is a low-level textual language with a structure similar to assembler. Originated in Europe IL is considered to be the PLC language in which all other IEC61 131-3 languages can be translated.Ladder Diagram (LO) is a graphical language that has

18、 its roots in the USA. LDs conform to a programming style borrowed from electronic and electrical circuits for implementing control logics.Structured Text (STJ is a very powerful high-level language. ST borrows its syntax from Pascal, augmenting it with some features from Ada. ST contains all the es

19、sential elements of a modem programming language.Function Block Diagram (FBD) is a graphical language and it is very common to the process industry. In this language controllers are modelled as signal and data flows through function blocks. FBD transforms textual programming into connecting function

20、 blocks and thus improves modularity and software reuse.Sequential Function Chart (SFC) is a graphical language. SFC elements are defined for structuring the organization of programmable controller programs.One problem with IEC 61 131-3 is that there is no standardized format for the project informa

21、tion in a PLC programming tool. At the moment there are only vendor specific formats. This is also one reason for the restriction of formalization approaches to single programs or algorithms. However, recently the PLC users organization PLCopen (see http:/www.plcopen.org) started a Technical Committ

22、ee to define an XML based format for projects according to IEC 61131-3. This new format will ease the access of formalization tools to all relevant information of a PLC project. RE-ENGINEERING APPROACHThe presented approach towards re-engineering (cf. Fig.1) is based upon the conception that XML can

23、 be used as a medium in which PLC codes will be transformed.This transformation offers the advantage of obtaining avendor independent specification code. (Even if the PLCopen succeeds in defining a standardized format for PLC applications, there will remain a lot of existing programs that do not con

24、form to this standard.) Based on this code a step-wise transformation to a formal model (automata) is planned. This model can then be used for analysis, simulation, formal verification and validation, and finally for the re-implementation of the optimized algorithm on the same or another PLC.Since r

25、e-engineering of complete programs will, in most cases, be only a semi-automatic process, intermediate visualization of the code is an important point. At different stages of the process different aspects of the code and/or formal model have to be visualized in a way that a designer can guide the fu

26、rther work. XML with its powerful visualization and transformation tools is an ideal tool for solving this task.IV. XML AS A TOOL FOR VISUALIZATIONXML (extensible Markup Language) is a simple and flexible meta-language, i.e， a language for describing other languages. Tailored by the World Wide Web C

27、onsortium (W3C) as a dialect of SGML S, XML removes two constraints which were holding back Web developments 6. The dependence on a single, inflexible document type (HTML) which was being much abused for tasks it was never designed for on one side; and the complexity of full SGML, whose syntax allow

28、s many powerful but hard-to-program options on the other side.While HTML describes how data should be presented, XML describes the data itself. A number of industries and scientific disciplines-medical records and newspaper publishing among them-are already using XML to exchange information across p

29、latforms and applications. XML can be tailored to describe virtually any kind of information in a form that the recipient of the information can use in a variety of ways. It is specifically designed to support information exchange between systems that use fundamentally different forms of data repres

30、entation, as for example between CAD and scheduling applications.Using XML with its powerful parsers and inherent robustness in terms of syntactic and semantic grammar is more advantageous than the conventional method of using a lexical analyzer and a validating parser (cf. Fig. 2, 7).The convention

31、al method of analysis of program code requires a scanner (lexical analyser) which generates a set of terminal symbols (tokens) followed by a parser thatchecks the grammatical structure of the code and generates an object net. In the object net the internal structure of the program is represented by

32、identified objects and the relations between them. Both the scanner and the parser to be used in this method are document oriented which implies that analysis of different types of documents requires rewriting the generated code for the scanner and the parser. An example of an application of this me

33、thod can be found in 8.The most promising aspect of using XML instead is that XML and its complementary applications for transformations are standardized so as to provide maximum flexibility to its user.The XML based method is advantageous, since the lexical specification is an invariant component of XML; therefore