Automatic generation of system descriptions for plant supervisory control systems

This paper describes the automatic generation of system descriptions for SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems. The proposed method produces various types of data and programs for SCADA systems from equipment definitions using conversion rules. First, it makes directed graphs, which represent connections between the equipment, from equipment definitions. System descriptions are generated using the conversion rules, by analyzing these directed graphs, and finding groups of equipment that involve similar operations. This method can be used with various SCADA systems, and provides visual tools for editing conversion rules. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn, 143(3): 29–37, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/eej.10149