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OSAI: A Component-Based Open Software Architecture for Modern Industrial Control Systems

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ICS (industrial control system) has gone through constant evolution in both hardware and software with the growing complexity of control applications. The generalization for these control systems has been a trend, and the hardware platform for ICS is getting multifunctional. Therefore, it is necessary to apply methods and technologies from the general software domain to handle this. CBSE (component-based software engineering) can promote reusability during software development and decouple the system with scalability. Existing component-based methods for ICS lack support for advanced function with modern technologies, and traditional software architectures are not flexible enough and usually vendor specific, which brings difficulties to system integration. In this paper, we propose an Open Software Architecture for Industry based on a novel component model. The motivation is to provide a component-based method for ICS and an open framework for various application parts and multi-vendor cooperation. We concern about three aspects including reusability, openness, and flexibility. Meanwhile, a flexible runtime architecture for the component model that supports isolation and real-time performance also matters. We also implement a simple real-life case based on the component model and software architecture we design and evaluate real-time and communication performance.

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  6. CAN in Automation (CiA)

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This work was partially supported by Shanghai Science and Technology Committee Rising-Star Program (No. 18QB1402000) and Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality Project (No. 18ZR1411600).

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  1. National Trusted Embedded Software Engineering Technology Research Center, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Yan Wang, Gang Zhu, Jianqi Shi, Yanhong Huang & Xin Guo

  2. Hardware/software Co-Design Technology and Application Engineering Research Center, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Jianqi Shi & Xin Guo

  3. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Yanhong Huang

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Yan Wang was involved in methodology, investigation, and writing—original draft; Gang Zhu was involved in methodology, experiment, and writing—original draft; Jianqi Shi was involved in conceptualization, resources, and writing—review and editing; Yanhong Huang was involved in conceptualization, resources, and writing—review and editing; and Xin Guo was involved in conceptualization and supervision.

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Wang, Y., Zhu, G., Shi, J. et al. OSAI: A Component-Based Open Software Architecture for Modern Industrial Control Systems. Arab J Sci Eng 47, 3805–3819 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-021-06123-3

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