Apparatus for setting network of process field bus decentralized periphery

摘要

The present disclosure includes a master device, a plurality of slave devices performing a communication through Profibus and a configuration tool providing network configuration information of Profibus DP by generating the network configuration information, wherein the configuration tool includes an automatic configuration module configured to request the master device of information relative to the plurality of slave devices in response to an automatic configuration command inputted through a user communication module, to receive the information and provide profiles of relevant types by determining the types of the plurality of slave devices using the received information, and a network configuration information configured to generate the network configuration information in response to the types and profiles determined by the automatic configuration module and to provide the network configuration information to the master device.

主权项

1. An apparatus for setting a network of a PROcess Field Bus (PROFIBUS) Decentralized Periphery (DP), the apparatus comprising:
a master device;
a plurality of slave devices configured to perform a communication with the master device through a Process field bus; anda configuration tool configured to generate network configuration information of the Profibus DP and provide the configuration information to the master device,wherein the configuration tool includes an automatic configuration module configured to request the master device of information relative to the plurality of slave devices in response to an automatic configuration command inputted through a user communication module, to receive the information and provide profiles of relevant types by determining the types of the plurality of slave devices using the received information, and a network configuration module configured to generate the network configuration information in response to the types and profiles determined by the automatic configuration module and to provide the network configuration information to the master device;the master device requests, from the plurality of slave devices, the configuration information necessary for automatic configuration in response to the automatic configuration request of the automatic configuration module; andthe plurality of slave devices respectively provide to the master device the configuration information on which device type, among a plurality of slave device types, a respective slave device is among the plurality of slave device types,wherein the automatic configuration module includes a slave information collector configured to request information on the plurality of slave devices to the master device, and to collect the requested information of the plurality of slave devices, and a GDS (Generic Station Description) comparator configured to determine the types of plurality of slave devices by comparing the information of the plurality of slave devices collected by the slave information collector with information pre-stored in database, and to provide a profile corresponding to the determined types to the network configuration module by reading out the profile from the database.