cloudAutomation
From NMSL
Industrial Automation as a Cloud Service
Current large-scale industrial automation systems are offered at a very high cost and take months or even years to start up. A large part of the development/engineering time and cost is due to the reliance on physical controllers. In this project, we
- Answer the question: “Can industrial automation benefit from cloud computing to reduce costs and deployment time?”
- Design an architecture for providing industrial automation as a cloud service.
- Design a delay compensation method to mitigate roundtrip Internet delays.
- Design a distributed fault tolerance approach to mitigate controller and link failures.
- Evaluate our approach on commercial cloud using a physical model of a solar power plant hosted in our lab.
