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US 9,304,963 B2Granted
Data table structure for self-organized management of communication with functional modules coupled via backplane assembly based on received module description including control logic
AssigneeRockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
InventorsXuyyan Xiao, Mark E. Delker, Benfeng Tang, Chao Chen, Steven A. Lombardi, David Berman
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Abstract
Systems and methods self-organize a multifunctional power and energy control and management system by integrating multiple backplane based modules through module descriptions, the module descriptions including control logic and parameters associated with the modules. Dynamic data table structures may be configured based on information provides with the module descriptions and provide for improved data accessing, storing, and updating.
Claims17
A system comprising:
- a backplane assembly;
- at least one functional module coupled directly to the backplane assembly to receive process related data, the at least one functional module including a unique functional module description, the functional module description including control logic for controlling the at least one functional module and parameters associated with the functional module;
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- a primary module coupled directly to the backplane assembly, the primary module including a description parser to receive the at least one functional module description through the backplane assembly, and interpret the at least one functional module description and to dynamically create a data table structure associated with the at least one functional module, the dynamically created data table structure including at least one parameter and the control logic associated with the functional module, and the dynamically created data table structure configured to manage a plurality of data received from and transmitted to the at least one functional module based on the at least one parameter and the control logic.
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