USING COMMERCIAL COMPUTING PACKAGE MODELS TO GENERATE MOTOR CONTROL CODE

• US 20090055156A1
• Filed: 08/24/2007
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Allen-Bradley Co., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Allen-Bradley Co., Inc.)
• Inventors: Cooper, Mark R.
• Application Number:
  US11/844,944
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055156A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2117/08 HW-SW co-design, e.g. HW-SW partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/20 Design optimisation, verification or simulation optimisation, verification or simulation of circuit designs G06F30/30

Abstract

Systems and methods for designing and/or diagnosing industrial applications including the use of a simulation of hardware and/or software elements. A correlation component can assess the degree of accuracy with which the simulation represents the operation of the hardware counterparts. A customer assistance system and method whereby a customer can describe a desired industrial application and request a simulative evaluation of the performance of the proposed equipment and software, and receive purchase information, suggested solutions, and diagnostic insight.

Claims

1. An industrial application design system, comprising:

a simulation component that can represent operation of actual hardware elements used in the industrial application; and

a correlation component that can evaluate the degree of correlation that corresponds to the accuracy with which the simulation component represents operation of the actual hardware elements.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a code generation component that can receive a simulation from the simulation component and generate code from the simulation.

3. The system of claim 1, the simulation component comprises a commercially available computing package.

4. The system of claim 1, the correlation component reports the degree of correlation as a percentage.

5. The system of claim 1, the simulation is a composite simulation, containing at least one simulated element and at least one actual hardware element.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising an artificial intelligence component that assists the correlation component in evaluating the degree of correlation.

7. The system of claim 1, the simulation component can receive a description of the industrial application from a customer, and can provide the customer with an evaluation of the performance of the simulation.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising an artificial intelligence component that suggests alterations to the industrial application based, at least in part, upon completed simulations.

9. A method for designing an industrial application, comprising:

receiving a description of the industrial application;

identifying elements in possession;

identifying supplementary elements that are to be simulated;

compiling simulation information for the elements;

evaluating a correlation between the simulation information and the elements represented by the simulation;

performing a simulation based on the simulation information; and

conveying the results of the simulation.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising reporting a measure of reliability of the simulation based, at least in part, upon the correlation.

11. The method of claim 9, the elements comprise at least one of hardware or software elements.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising analyzing the description of the industrial application and comparing the description with past simulations.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising suggesting elements for use in the industrial application.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising performing the simulation including simulation information used in at least one past simulation.

15. The method of claim 9, the description of the industrial application is received from a customer.

16. The method of claim 9, further comprising employing a commercially available computing product to perform the simulation.

17. The method of claim 9, further comprising performing the simulation using a plurality of interchangeable supplementary elements.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising reporting results from the simulations performed with the plurality of supplementary elements, and reporting the results for comparison.

19. A system for diagnosing an industrial application, comprising:

means for describing an industrial application, including elements in possession and supplementary elements;

means for evaluating a correlation between actual elements of the industrial application and simulative representations thereof;

means for performing a simulation of the industrial application;

means for reporting simulation results for diagnostic use.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising means to evaluate a reliability of the simulation based, at least in part, upon an evaluation of the correlation.