Publicação
Modular Open Hardware Educational Controller
| Resumo: | In the last decade, the 4Th Industrial Revolution has brought new challenges and paradigms to the manufacturing industry, in response to the consumer’s requirements demanding numerous different products be highly customizable. New standards and technologies emerge faster than ever, as companies try to gain an edge over their competitors. How can students and universities keep up to date and use the different proprietary technologies? This work proposes an architecture and a validation prototype where a controller is developed, with modularity and flexibility as the core ideas, and that allows for the integration of open-source standards that are similar to the proprietary technologies used in today’s factories. The implementation of this architecture led to the development of a prototype modular industrial controller, that is a quarter of the cost of the new generation of industrial controllers. The developed controller was later tested and validated using some of the educational industrial kits from the UNINOVA/RICS. |
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| Autores principais: | Potier, João Baptista de Morais Alarcão |
| Assunto: | Cyber-Physical Production Systems Modularity Industrial Controller ESP-32 Internet of Things |
| Ano: | 2023 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | In the last decade, the 4Th Industrial Revolution has brought new challenges and paradigms to the manufacturing industry, in response to the consumer’s requirements demanding numerous different products be highly customizable. New standards and technologies emerge faster than ever, as companies try to gain an edge over their competitors. How can students and universities keep up to date and use the different proprietary technologies? This work proposes an architecture and a validation prototype where a controller is developed, with modularity and flexibility as the core ideas, and that allows for the integration of open-source standards that are similar to the proprietary technologies used in today’s factories. The implementation of this architecture led to the development of a prototype modular industrial controller, that is a quarter of the cost of the new generation of industrial controllers. The developed controller was later tested and validated using some of the educational industrial kits from the UNINOVA/RICS. |
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