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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2015
Hitachi, Ltd., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Saegusa, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiro Arisaka, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A distributed control system and a control method for the distributed control system are provided that reduce adjustment and setup steps required when the system are applied to a control using sensors and actuators. The distributed control system includes a central communication unit and terminal communication units, the central communication unit and the terminal communication units connected to each other through a network. Communication control setup is automatically performed for each of the terminal communication units when control is exercised by using sensors and actuators connected to the terminal communication units based on each transmission characteristic of the time when a physical quantity generated by driving each of the actuators propagates to each of the sensors and on the setup of required performance of control.