发明名称 |
Virtual placeholder configuration for distributed input/output modules |
摘要 |
A modular distributed I/O system for an industrial automation network that allows one or more modules of an island to be omitted without requiring reconfiguration of the system by maintaining a consistent I/O image representation of the distributed I/O network for various physical distributed I/O configurations, and managing reconfiguration changes using Virtual Placeholder objects. |
申请公布号 |
US8966028(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2015.02.24 |
申请号 |
US201213471071 |
申请日期 |
2012.05.14 |
申请人 |
Schneider Electric USA, Inc. |
发明人 |
Blair Richard A.;Lee Kenneth S.;Dhayagude Nitin;Van de Steeg Kerry;Schaffner Heinz;Brune Torsten Joachim;Kreβ Sascha Michael |
分类号 |
G06F15/177;G05B19/05;G06F3/06;G06F9/50;H04L29/08 |
主分类号 |
G06F15/177 |
代理机构 |
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. |
代理人 |
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. |
主权项 |
1. A system for configuring a process image in an automation network, the system comprising:
a physical island having a network interface module, the physical island further including a plurality of input/output (I/O) modules, wherein configuration software run by the network interface module maintains a consistent process image for various distributed I/O configurations having one or more I/O modules of the plurality of I/O modules physically removed from the system using virtual placeholders, and wherein said configuration software generates a translation table that provides a correlation between node addresses of the physical island and node addresses of a logical island model of said physical island, wherein an I/O module of the plurality of I/O modules in a physical slot X having node ID X is presented outside the physical island as if that I/O module were located in slot Y. |
地址 |
Palatine IL US |