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SME MS910468
- Real-Time Control And Networked Communications
- standard by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 06/01/1991
- Publisher: SME
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RECENT ADVANCES IN SOFTWARE NOW PERMIT INTEGRATING INDUSTRY-STANDARD COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL WITH REAL-TIME CONTROL. THIS PAPER DESCRIBES ONE APPROACH TO CREATING DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS COMBINING WIDELY USED COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS AND STANDARD OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE (UNIX). THIS PAPER DISCUSSES: REAL-TIME CONTROL IN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION; THE DUAL ROLE OF COMMUNICATIONS IN RUN-TIME SYSTEM AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; THE UNIX-REAL RELATIONSHIP, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE VXWORKS REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEM AS AN EXAMPLE OF CURRENT TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATING COMMUNICATIONS AND REAL-TIME CONTROL. IN ADDITION, THIS PAPER DESCRIBES A REPRESENTATIVE OPEN SYSTEMS NETWORKED REAL-TIME MANUFACTURING SYSTEM.