Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Industry, Inc.

Emmanuel Bisse

Justinian Rosca

Lingyun Wang

Steffen Lamparter

Ajit Keshay Bhat

Matthias Erhardt

Michael Foote

Houyou Mohamed El Amine

Amine Mohamed Houyou

A method of testing a physical system that includes software and hardware includes developing a software application arranged to operate at least a portion of the physical system and constructing a simulation of the physical system within a test ecosystem, the simulation including inputs that simulate control inputs of the physical system and outputs that simulate control and informational outputs. The method also includes connecting the software application to the simulation of the physical system to test the operation of the software application, and simulating operation of the physical system and the software application within test ecosystem operation of the software application as each of a cloud application, a network operation of the software application as each of a cloud application, a network application, and a local application.

System and method for testing a physical system including software and hardware

A method of operating an intelligent programmable logic controller includes executing, by a processor included in the intelligent programmable logic controller, a control program. A non-volatile storage medium included in the intelligent programmable logic controller stores a control model comprising control knowledge related to the control program. The control model is used to perform a monitoring operation related to execution of the control program on the intelligent programmable logic controller.

Control contextualization and reasoning about control

According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for detecting collisions of parcels on a moving conveyor belt, including the steps of representing each belt with a rectangular cell mesh of columns and rows, for each parcel on the belt system, identifying those cells on a belt where each parcel contacts the belt, marking a parcel's new cell position after a predetermined time frame in a direction parallel to the motion, for each marked cell, incrementing a corresponding collision detector counter in a collision detection table, marking a parcel's new cell position after the predetermined time frame in a direction perpendicular to the motion, for each marked cell, incrementing a corresponding collision detector counter in the collision detection table, and checking the collision detector counter value in each cell, where a value greater than or equal to 3 indicates a parcel collision.

System and method for parcel singulation based on collision detection

Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising a plurality of activities comprising via a graphical editor running on a Human Machine Interface comprising a first embedded operating system, providing a plurality of set points related to a process to a programmable logic controller. The method can comprise, via the programmable logic controller, automatically controlling the process responsive to information received from the graphical editor.

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