US 10,523,502 B2Granted

Method and system for configuration of devices of a control system

AssigneeABB Schweiz AG

InventorsAparajithan Vaidyanathan, Raoul Jetley

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Abstract

In aspects, the present invention discloses a method of configuring a plurality of devices of a control system using a configuration server connected to a plurality of data repositories using an engineering data gateway. The method comprises retrieving a first data set from a first data repository from the plurality of data repositories, retrieving a second data set associated with the first data set from a second data repositories from the plurality of data repositories, identifying at least one functional dependencies among the first data set and the second data set, generating a plurality of engineering artifacts including a configuration file, and transmitting the configuration file to a corresponding device from the plurality of devices.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A method of configuring a plurality of devices of a control system using a configuration server connected to a plurality of data repositories using an engineering data gateway, wherein each data repository from the plurality of data repositories is associated with a corresponding engineering tool from a plurality of engineering tools, the method comprising:

retrieving a first data set from a first data repository from the plurality of data repositories, wherein the first data set is stored in the first data repository in a first data model;
retrieving a second data set associated with the first data set from a second data repository from the plurality of data repositories, wherein the second data set is stored in the second data repository in a second data model;
identifying at least one functional dependency among the first data set and the second data set by converting the first data set and the second data sets to a graph database comprising a first node and a second node, created using the first data set and the second data set, and an edge between the first node and second node wherein the edge is indicative of the at least one functional dependency;
generating a plurality of engineering artifacts including a configuration file and at least one of a system topology diagram, a control logic diagram, and a face plate of a human machine interface using the first data set and the second data set in accordance with the at least one functional dependency, where generating the plurality of engineering artifacts comprises assessing an impact of a modification on the first data set based on one or more relationships indicated as one or more edges in the graph database and rendering the assessed impact of the modification on the first data set using the graph database;
generating one or more recommendations in relation to the plurality of engineering artifacts using the first data set and the second data set in accordance with the identified at least one functional dependency and one or more predetermined rules;
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transmitting the configuration file to a corresponding device from the plurality of devices for commissioning the operation of the device.

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A system for configuring a plurality of devices of a control system, the system comprising:

a plurality of data repositories, wherein each data repository from the plurality of data repositories is associated with a corresponding engineering tool from a plurality of engineering tools;
an engineering data gateway communicatively coupled to the plurality of data repositories, wherein the engineering data gateway is configured to convert one or more data sets from one or more data models to a graph database comprising a plurality of nodes, created using the one or more data sets, and a plurality of edges between the plurality of nodes wherein each edge from the plurality of edges is indicative of at least one functional dependency;
and
a configuration server operatively coupled to the plurality of data repositories using the engineering data gateway, wherein the configuration server is configured to:
retrieve a first data set from a first data repository and a second data set from a second data repository,
identify at least one functional dependency among the first data set and the second data set using the graph database,
generate a plurality of engineering artifacts including a configuration file and at least one of a system topology diagram, a control logic diagram, and a face plate of a human machine interface, using the first data set and the second data set in accordance with the identified at least one functional dependency,
generate one or more recommendations in relation to the plurality of engineering artifacts using the first data set and the second data set in accordance with the identified at least one functional dependency and one or more predetermined rules, and
transmit the configuration file to a corresponding device from the plurality of devices for commissioning the operation of the corresponding device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/314,092Filed 28 May 2015
Priority: IN 2645/CHE/201429 May 2014
Published: US 2017/0099183 A16 Apr 2017
Granted: 31 Dec 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04L 41/0806
Configuration setting: for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
G05B 19/0426
Using digital processors: programming the control sequence
G05B 19/052
Programmable logic controllers, e.g. simulating logic interconnections of signals according to ladder diagrams or function charts: linking several…
G05B 2219/24034
Pc safety: model checker, to verify and debug control software