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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2009
Chengyin Yuan, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Stephan R. Biller, Birmingham, MI (US);
Chieh-yi Jerry Yen, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Fangming Gu, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Chengyin Yuan, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Stephan R. Biller, Birmingham, MI (US);
Chieh-Yi Jerry Yen, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Fangming Gu, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A system for generating platform-specific control logic implementation code for execution on a programmable logic controller (PLC) platform includes a plurality of processing layers. A first layer models generic control requirements as a unitary mathematical model (UMM). A second layer translates the UMM into generic control code describing a platform-independent set of generic control functions following an open structured language. A third layer automatically transforms the generic control functions into the platform-specific implementation code executable on different PLC platforms. A method of generating the implementation code includes modeling control requirements as a mathematical model, transforming the model into platform-independent control code describing a predetermined set of generic control functions using Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema, and automatically transforming the generic control functions into the implementation code.