Method for updating a description of an automation system
AssigneeSchneider Electric Industries SAS
InventorsMayank Sharma, Soguy Mak-Karé Gueye, Philippe Nappey
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for updating a description of an automation system of a power network including at least: providing a preliminary description of the automation system, the preliminary description including components and relationships; providing at least one non-functional requirement; adapting the preliminary description to meet the non-functional requirement by modifying the components and relationships; instantiating a final description of the automation system based on the adapted preliminary description.
Claims19
A computer-implemented method for updating a description of an automation system (2) of a power network (1) comprising at least the steps of:
- providing a preliminary description of the automation system (200), the preliminary description comprising components and relationships between the components;
- providing at least one non-functional requirement (201);
- adapting the preliminary description to meet the non-functional requirement by modifying the components and relationships (202);
- and
- instantiating a final description of the automation system based on the adapted preliminary description (203).
The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein a component belongs to the power network (1) and/or the automation system (2), and is chosen among an asset (A), a service (S) and a host (H).
The method according to any of the preceding claims wherein the components are provided in the preliminary description by using a meta-model, each component being defined by a specific profile.
The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein providing a preliminary description comprises obtaining attributes on the components from a user.
The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein providing at least one non-functional requirement comprises obtaining attributes on the automation system capabilities from a user.
The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein adapting the preliminary description comprises removing components from the preliminary description.
The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein adapting the preliminary description comprises selecting other components from a repository to be added to the preliminary description, selection of the components being based on the preliminary description and the non-functional requirement.
The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the non-functional requirement is a performance or dependency metric of the automation system.
The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the automation system is adapted to monitor, protect and/or control an electrical network.
A computer-readable non-transient recording medium on which a software is registered to implement the method according to any of the preceding claims when the software is executed by a processor.
An engineering system (100) for updating a description of an automation system comprising:
- a description editor (102) adapted to provide a preliminary description of an automation system, the preliminary description comprising components and relationships between the components, and at least one non-functional requirement;
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- an instantiation element (103) to adapt the preliminary description to meet the non-functional requirement by modifying the components and relationships and to instantiate a final description based on the adaptation of the preliminary description.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.