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Wireless - Mobile Automation (Project Wiki)
The success of wireless technologies in consumer electronics allows standard wireless technologies to be envisioned for the deployment in industrial environments. This wireless convergence simplifies the access to any equipment in the industrial plant, for any purpose. Furthermore, wireless technologies brings more benefits for industrial applications. The localization and tracking of unfinished parts, the coordination of autonomous transport of vehicles and mobile robots, distributed control applications as well the automation of human procedures using workflow applications are areas in which wireless technologies could be used in industrial environments.
The Wireless Project aims the research and deployment of wireless technologies in industrial environments. The goal is to develop tools and applications to support mobile automation solutions. Currently, the project comprises the following research lines, which are detailed described and constantly updated in this project wiki. These research lines are defined according to the demand of the Subprojects. It makes possible to work on practical issues based on the requirements established by the industrial partners.
Wireless Technologies
This research line aims to define wireless technologies for mobile devices to be used by operators in industrial operational procedures. For that, it is necessary a definition of software and hardware platforms to support the proposed solutions. Also, this research line aims the definition of architectures, specifications, and designs of wireless network topologies for specific industrial environments.
OPC - OLE for Process Control
The OPC research line aims to study the OPC standards, specially the OPC-DA and OPC-XML-DA. Then, specify, design, implement, and integrate server applications to supervisory systems using OPC. Also, it aims the implementation of client applications in mobile devices to acquire data from fields and control tasks.
RFID - Radio Frequency Identification
The RFID research line aims to study and develop hardware mechanisms using RFID to validate the execution of tasks by human operators in industrial environments, such as oil and natural gas units.
