15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
WORST-CASE RESPONSE TIME OF APERIODIC MESSAGE IN WORLDFIP
Zhi WANG1* Ye_qiong SONG2 Hai-bin YU3 Youxian SUN1
1 National Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
2 LORIA-ENSEM,2,av.de la Forêt de Haye, 54516 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
3 Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China
Author of correspondence: zhiwang_iipc@yahoo.com

This paper presents an integrated approach to analyse worst-case responding time (WCRT) of aperiodic message in WorldFIP for guaranteeing realtime requirement of distributed control system (DCS). Aperiodic message transmission within WorldFIP is a very complicated procedure because it is concerned with left time in a microcycle and must successively follow three different stages. To decrease pessimistic factors in WCRT of aperiodic message, we integrate the procedures of transmitting periodic message, identifying aperiodic request and transmitting aperiodic message together, and deduce a tightly bound for WCRT of aperiodic message. The result is validated by case study at last.
Keywords: WorldFIP, Field Communication, Real-time, Aperiodic message, Worst-Case Responding Time
Session slot T-We-A07: Cost Effective Control Systems/Area code 1f : Low Cost Automation