Daedalus Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS

Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS

Summary

Daedalus is conceived to enable the full exploitation of the CPS (Cyber Physical System) concept of virtualized intelligence, through the adoption of a completely distributed automation platform based on IEC 61499 standard, fostering the creation of a Digital Ecosystem that could go beyond the current limits of manufacturing control systems and propose an ever-growing market of innovative solutions for the design, engineering, production and maintenance of plants’ automation.

Daedalus proposes the deployment of an Automation Ecosystem for a multi-sided market based on a new generation of distributed intelligent devices (CPS) that, existing both in the real and in the cyber (simulated) world, can be aggregated, orchestrated and re-configured to exhibit complex manufacturing behaviours that optimize the performance of future shop floor. The initiative focuses on key topics for the competitiveness of Europe and its companies, encompassing a variety of interdisciplinary tasks with the objective of deploying a digital platform and multi-sided ecosystem for the industrial automation domain.

More information

Web resources:	http://daedalus.iec61499.eu https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/205469/factsheet/en
Start date:	01-10-2016
End date:	30-09-2019
Total budget - Public funding:	5 079 796,00 Euro - 3 994 296,00 Euro
Call topic:	Digital Automation - Novel architectures for factory automation based on CPS and IoT - Collaborative manufacturing and logistics (FoF.2016.11)

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Project type - instrument - (1)
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Research & Innovation Action (RIA)

Significant innovations and lessons learned - (1)
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Specific use case requirements

Results:

Industrial requirements for an effective establishment of the Automation Ecosystem

Manufacturing performance characteristics - (11)
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Economic sustainability Flexibility Circular economy Social sustainability Increasing human achievements in manufacturing systems Occupational safety and health

Environmental sustainability Reducing the consumption of energy, while increasing the usa... Reducing the consumption of water and other process resource... Material efficiency Skills, training, new job profiles

Economic sustainability

Comment:

Flexibility

Environmental sustainability

Circular economy

Material efficiency

Reducing the consumption of energy, while increasing the usage of renewable energy

Reducing the consumption of water and other process resources.

Social sustainability

Increasing human achievements in manufacturing systems

Comment:

Daedalus technology (as any other to deploy Industry 4.0-ready automation) absolutely needs a change of perspective and culture in users of such technology (all automation stakeholders)

Occupational safety and health

Skills, training, new job profiles

Comment: Through the deployment of its European Competence Centre, Daedalus will specifically target this technology transfer issue, both directly (with specific training and involvement initiatives) and indirectly (by linking with relevant training and education institutions, within and without the project boundaries). http://www.synesis-consortium.eu/competence-center/

Manufacturing future products - (1)
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Domain 2: Adaptive and smart manufacturing systems

Technologies and enablers - (10)
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Mechatronics Control technologies Intelligent machinery components, actuators and end-effectors ICT solutions for modelling and simulation tools Virtual models spanning all levels of the factory life and i...

Engineering tools Data processing Cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies - ma... Programming Languages Programming Frameworks – Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Information and communication technologies

Data collection, storage, analytics, processing and AI

Cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies - machine learning

Data processing

Programming Frameworks – Software Development Kits (SDKs)

Programming Languages

Comment: IEC-61499: Interoperable event-based object orientation. Daedalus: Reference implementation of IDE for CPS development

Mechatronics

Control technologies

Intelligent machinery components, actuators and end-effectors

Comment:

Engineering tools

System modelling, simulation and forecasting

Manufacturing system levels - (8)
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Manufacturing system levels Field Device Work station Enterprise - Factory

Manufacturing system life-cycle stages Design/development Integration/ configuration of manufacturing systems Use-phase of manufacturing system (producing products)

Manufacturing system levels

Comment: Daedalus approach is hierarchical and self-similar at its core, meaning that its scope goes from field devices to full plants through progressive aggregation and abstraction

Field Device

Comment: Device-level Showcase. Agent-level Showcase. Machine-level Showcase.

Work station

Enterprise - Factory

Comment: Factory-level Showcase. Plant-level Showcase.

Digitalisation pathways - (6)
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Cybersecurity Connected IT and OT IoT enabled SCADA, MOM-MES, ERP (…) connectivity

Off-line optimisation Off-line Digital Manufacturing Process Optimisation on facto... Platform enabled optimisation

Autonomous Smart Factories Pathway

Connected IT and OT

IoT enabled SCADA, MOM-MES, ERP (…) connectivity

Off-line optimisation

Off-line Digital Manufacturing Process Optimisation on factory level

Platform enabled optimisation

ICT performance characteristics - (18)
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Interoperability (ICT) Semantic/information interoperability Connectivity & network interoperability – communication prot... Web-services / Composability Performance characteristics Real-time communication capability Cybersecurity Scalability Field Device

Work station Enterprise - Factory AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication User Acccess and Rights Management Application level interoperability Modular Design and Deployment Approaches Open APIs and Communication Protocols Integration level interoperability APIs and Integration Protocols

Cybersecurity

Comment: Strong attention will be given to augmenting the auto-binding and auto-configuration functionalities of the IEC-61499 technology with specific security-related mechanisms

Interoperability (ICT)

Comment: CPS interface: Extension of automation objects to include/interface with behavioral models. HW/SW wrapping of legacy and/or proprietary systems

General interoperability framework

Application level interoperability

Comment: Integrating "digital" applications running in other platform into the real-time automation engineering environment is a very interesting use-case

Modular Design and Deployment Approaches

Comment: IEC-61499 is modular and OO in its approach to real-time automation. Moreover, it allows to "encapsulate" interfaces to other platform coherently with this OO approach.

Open APIs and Communication Protocols

Comment: IEC-61499 is open and interoperable by design. From within IEC-61499, interfaces to other platforms can be developed in C++ to generate specific APIs. Other platforms wanting to interact over an IEC-61499 communication bus can easily implement the protocols without changing their internal programming.

Web-services / Composability

Integration level interoperability

Comment: IEC-61499 established both a programming language and the rules for open communication protocols for real-time control over distributed applications. Interaction between non real-time and real-time IIoT could be guaranteed through the standard.

APIs and Integration Protocols

Comment: A cross-platform acceptance of IEC-61499 for the real-time control domain for distributed applications guarantees an open and interoperable way of putting together different platform over this specific aspect.

Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols

Comment: IEC-61499: Real-time (non strict) and pre-defined topology. Daedalus: Auto-discovery and auto-binding over strict real-time

Semantic/information interoperability

Comment: Orchestration development framework. IEC 61499: Supervised orchestration of distributed devices. Daedalus: SDK to design optimal distributed control solutions

Platform level interoperability

AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication

Comment: Not foreseen for IEC-61499 but possible if performance (over real-time) overhead is acceptable. Within IEC-61499, justified only if industrial requirements exists; the standard accepts the possibility to be extended in this direction. With respect to intefacing to other platfrom, complete openness to implement appropriate software gateways.

User Acccess and Rights Management

Comment: Developing a solution specific for IEC-61499. Open to standardized methods to interface to existing SoA approaches in higher levels of automation.

Industrial Reference ICT Architectures

Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)

RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis and associated standards

Field Device

Comment: Device-level Showcase. Agent-level Showcase. Machine-level Showcase.

Work station

Enterprise - Factory

Comment: Factory-level Showcase. Plant-level Showcase.

Real-time communication capability

Scalability

Comment: The whole concept of “orchestrated distributed automation” enabled by IEC-61499 has been structure to sustain scalability, also in face of big data elaboration issues.

Business model aspects - (5)
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Added Value Business model aspects of digital platform deployment Business ecosystems associated to digital platforms

Target clients Other eco-system aspects

Business models

Business model aspects of digital platform deployment

Comment: DAEDALUS unleashes the (already existing) potentialities of the automation market to become multi-sided. All core market stakeholders are impacted, either directly or indirectly (plant operators/owners). A new generation of “Automation SW developers” may grow, thank to the abstraction layers of the technology. Automation players interested in using the technology will have access to the showcase to understand its potentialities and learn the methodologies.

Results:

Complementors Business Plans Canvases [M18]

Added Value

Business ecosystems

Target clients

Results:

Business model for the multi-sided market of Daedalus?s Automation Ecosystem

Business ecosystems associated to digital platforms

Comment: Automation players interested in using the technology will have access to the showcase to understand its potentialities and learn the methodologies.

Results:

Technical and Economic functional architecture of Daedalus Digital Marketplace

Business model for the multi-sided market of Daedalus?s Automation Ecosystem

Other eco-system aspects

Results:

Business model for the multi-sided market of Daedalus?s Automation Ecosystem

Standards and standardisation - (2)
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Standards

IEC 61499

Standards

Comment:
Daedalus developments are based on the only existing international standard for distributed industrial automation, the IEC-61499. The standard already exists in more than one deployed implementations. During the project an open and international standardization action will be coordinated, leading to the creation of a CWA (CEN/CENELEC Workshop Agreement).

Standards according to SDOs

IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)

IEC 61499

Results:

Next generation of IEC-61499 automation tool-chain