Automatic translation of a process level Petri-net to a ladder diagram

Yuval Cohen, Ming En Wang, Bopaya Bidanda

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Abstract

Major part of discrete industrial automation hardware is controlled by Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). While Petri-nets (PNs) have been proposed by many researchers for modelling shop floor discrete control, the majority of the world PLCs are programmed using ladder diagrams (LD) and significant portion of them cannot be programmed using another language. This paper proposes hierarchical approach to translating PN to LD: for describing the high level process, it introduces automatic translation technique of process level PN, while utilizing a recently developed method (for translating PN to Boolean logic) for translating the embedded tasks to a LD. Interestingly, the generated LD code enables the reconstruction of the original Petri-net.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering
PublisherSpringer Publishing Company
Pages25-29
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9789048136599
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2008 International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, SCSS 2008, Part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering, CISSE 2008 -
Duration: 5 Dec 200813 Dec 2008

Publication series

NameAdvanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering

Conference

Conference2008 International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, SCSS 2008, Part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering, CISSE 2008
Period5/12/0813/12/08

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