15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
A FUNCTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE WEB-BASED DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS
Changho Lee* Yoo-Sung Kim** Jaehyun Park***
* Dept. of Automation Engineering,
Inha University, Inchon, Korea, Email: chlee@resl.inha.ac.kr
** Dept. of Communication and Information Engineering,
Inha University, Inchon, Korea, Email:yskim@inha.ac.kr
*** Dept. of Communication and Information Engineering,
Inha University, Inchon, Korea, Email:jhyun@inha.ac.kr

Emerging IT technologies, specially Internet communication and web-based applications are adopted to the modern distributed control systems. This paper defines a functional framework for the web-based application of a distributed control system connected by Internet. XML(eXtensible Markup Language) is used for representing a control system and control devices. These IT technologies makes a distributed control system more flexible and scalable than existing distributed systems with the standard RMI protocols such as CORBA or DCOM.
Keywords: Open architecture, distributed control system, SOAP, XML, real-time control
Session slot T-Mo-M21: Posters of Industrial Applications/Area code 9a : Distributed Computer Control Systems