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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2013
Hitachi, Ltd., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Saegusa, Tokyo, JP;
Terunobu Funatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Toyokazu Takagi, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a distributed control system including a central communication device, terminal communication devices to which target devices to be controlled are connected, and a network including multiple communication paths connecting the central communication device and terminal communication devices, each terminal communication device includes a calculation input/output performance storage unit storing input/output performance of a calculation unit for controlling the target devices to be controlled and a control input/output performance storage unit storing the performance of the input/output control units of the target devices to be controlled, and the central communication device collects input/output performance information previously stored in these storage units, determines communication paths of the terminal communication units and a packet division method in such a manner that an amount of a communication data of a network and response performance requested of the distributed control system are satisfied, on the basis of the collected input/output performance information and sets the determination results in the terminal communication devices.