Method for producing software for controlling mechanisms and technical systems

A method for the development of control software for a mechanism by a controller, comprising providing a dialogue system and further comprising:

• a) requesting data of hierarchical function structure for the description of the controllable system;
• b) defining each lower end of the hierarchical structure as an elementary function and defining each elementary function with an instruction states in a dialogue;
• c) assigning, according to the elementary instructions, signals of sensors, signals of actuators, control times for transition between the states, and a reference state;
• d) integrating partial systems being as elementary functions;
• e) requiring, in the dialogue system, only the primary data listed on the structure and elementary functions for the description of the functionality of the mechanism.

An apparatus for controlling a mechanism, comprising

• a) a plurality of domains, each domains being configured dependent on features of predetermined events;
• b) an execution computer;
• a plurality of program modules, each module being configured for a predetermined time-critical events;
• the computer comprising an instruction starter, an EF-controller, a not-desired state evaluator and a state monitor;
• c) the execution computer including a processor for the time-critical events;
• d) sensors and actuators, the execution computer communicating with controllable devices through the sensors, activation of the actuators, desired/actual state comparison, reactions to deviations of the actual state from the desired state and execution of a received instruction;
• e) a processor for management of application instructions in instruction libraries, management of blocking lists, execution of application programs by step-by-step transmission of instructions to the execution computer and external communication from the domain of a device comprising an instruction computer, and
• f) a domain application computer.