Office
network
TCP - IP
Ethernet
Plant Network
Ethernet, ControlNet
Fieldbus
intelligent field devices
FF, PROFIBUS, MVB, LON
Sensor Busses
simple switches etc.
CAN, DeviceNet, SDS, ASI-bus, Interbus-S
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3.1
Industrial Communication Systems
Field Bus: principles
Buses de terreno: principios
Bus de terrain: principes
Feldbusse: Grundlagen
Field bus: principles
3.1 Field bus principles
3.2 Field bus operation
Centralized - Decentralized
Cyclic and Event Driven Operation
3.3 Standard field busses
Location of the field bus in the plant hierarchy
SCADA level
Operator
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Plant bus
Programmable
Logic Controller
Plant Level
Field bus
Field level
Sensor/
Actor
Bus
Sensor /
Actor
direct I/O
Engineering
What is a field bus ?
A data network, interconnecting an automation system, characterized by:
- many small data items (process variables) with bounded delay (1ms..1s)
- transmission of non-real-time traffic for commissioning and diagnostics
- harsh environment (temperature, vibrations, EM-disturbances, water, salt,)
- robust and easy installation by skilled people
- high integrity (no undetected errors) and high availability (redundant layout)
- intrinsic safety (for oil & gas, mining, chemicals,..)
- clock synchronization (milliseconds to microseconds)
- continuous supervision and diagnostics
- low attachment costs ( 5.- .. 50 / node)
- moderate data rates (50 kbit/s - 5 Mbit/s), large distance range (10m - 4 km)
Expectations
- reduce cabling
- increased modularity of plant (each object comes with its computer)
- easy fault location and maintenance
- simplify commissioning (mise en service, IBS = Inbetriebssetzung)
- simplify extension and retrofit
- off-the-shelf standard products to build Lego-control systems
I/O
The original idea: save wiring
tray
marshalling
dumb devices
capacity
bar
PLC
(Rangierung,
PLC
COM
tableau de brassage (armoire de triage)
field bus
But: the number of end-points remains the same !
energy must be supplied to smart devices
Marshalling (Rangierschiene, Barre de rangement)
The marshalling is the interface
between the PLC people and the
instrumentation people.
The fieldbus replaces the
marshalling bar or rather moves it
piecewise to the process
(intelligent concentrator / wiring)
Distributed peripherals
Many field busses are just extensions
of the PLCs inputs and outputs,
field devices are data concentrators.
Devices are only visible to the PLC that
controls them.
relays and fuses
Industrial Automation
2013
Field buses: principles 3.1 - 8
Field busses classes
Office
network
TCP IP
Ethernet
Plant Network
Ethernet, ControlNet
Fieldbus
intelligent field devices
FF, PROFIBUS PA, LON
Sensor Bus
simple switches etc.
CAN, DeviceNet, SDS, ASI-bus, Interbus-S
The field bus depends on:
its function in the hierarchy
the distance it should cover
the data it should gather
Geographical extension of industrial plants
The field bus requirements follow the physical extension of the plant
1 km .. 1000 km
Transmission & Distribution
Control and supervision of large distribution networks:
water - gas - oil - electricity - ...
1 km .. 5 km
Power Generation
Out of primary energy sources:
waterfalls - coal - gas - oil - nuclear - solar - ...
50 m .. 3 km
Industrial Plants
Manufacturing and transformation plants:
cement works - steel works - food silos - printing - paper
pulp processing - glass plants - harbors - ...
500m .. 2 km
Building Automation
energy - air conditioning - fire - intrusion - repair - ...
1 m .. 1 km
Manufacturing
flexible manufacturing cells - robots
1 m .. 800 m
Vehicles
locomotives - trains - streetcars - trolley buses - vans buses - cars - airplanes - spacecraft - ...
Fieldbus over a wide area: example wastewater treatment
Pumps, gates, valves, motors, water level sensors, flow meters,
temperature sensors, gas meters (CH4), generators, etc are spread over an
area of several km2. Some parts of the plant have to cope with explosives.
Fieldbus over a wide area: example wastewater treatment
Control Room
Japan
Remote
Maintenance
System
source: Kaneka, Japan
LAS
Ethernet
SCADA
Malaysia
Bus Monitor
H1 Speed Fieldbus
JB
Segment 1
Sub Station
Segment 3JB
AO
AI
AI
PID
AI
PID
AI
Junction
Box
JB
AI
AI
AI
AI
PID AO
AO
Segment 2
JB
Segment 4
AI
PID AI PID
AO
AO
AI AI
Motor
Control
Center
Digital Input/Output
AI
AI
M.C.C.
DI
FB Protocol
Converter
AI
AI
AI
AO
PLC
AO
AI
AI
Numerous analog inputs/outputs (AI/AO),
low speed (37 kbit/s) segments (Hart) merged to 1 Mbit/s links (H1 Speed Fieldbus).
Fieldbus Application: locomotives and drives
power line
radio
cockpit
Train Bus
diagnosis
Vehicle Bus
brakes
data rate
delay
medium
number of stations
integrity
cost
power electronics
motors
track signals
1.5 Mbit/second
1 ms (16 ms for skip/slip control)
twisted wire pair, optical fibers (EM disturbances)
up to 255 programmable stations, 4096 simple I/O
very high (signaling tasks)
engineering costs dominate
Fieldbus Application: automobile
ECU
Monitoring
und
Diagnose
Bordnetz
ECU
redundantes
Bordnetz
12V und 48V
ECU
Bettigungseinheit
ECU
Bremsen
ECU
ECU
- Electromechanical wheel brakes
- Redundant Engine Control Units
- Pedal simulator
- Fault-tolerant 2-voltage on-board power supply
- Diagnostic System
Networking busses: Electricity Network Control: myriads of protocols
control
center
SCADA
control
center
IEC 870-6
Modicom
IEC 870-5
DNP 3.0
RTU
COM
RTU
Inter-Control Center Protocol
ICCP
Conitel
control
center
RP 570
RTU
HV
High
Voltage
serial links (telephone)
RTU
Remote Terminal Units
RTU
substation
substation
FSK, radio, DLC, cable, fiber,...
houses
RTU
RTU
MV
Medium
Voltage
LV
Low
Voltage
RTU
RTU
low speed, long distance communication, may use power lines or telephone modems.
Problem: diversity of protocols, data format, semantics...
Engineering a fieldbus: consider data density (Example: Power Plants)
Acceleration limiter and prime mover: 1kbit in 5 ms
Burner Control: 2kbit in 10 ms
For each 30m of plant: 200 kbit/s
Fast controllers require at least 16 Mbit/s over distances of 2 m
Data are transmitted from the periphery or from fast controllers to higher
level, but slower links to the control level through field busses over distances
of 1-2 km. The control stations gather data at rates of about 200 kbit/s over
distances of 30 m.
The control room computers are interconnected by a bus of at least 10 Mbit/s,
over distances of several 100 m.
Field bus planning: estimate data density per unit of length or
surface, response time and throughput over each link.
Assessment
What is a field bus ?
Which of these qualities are required:
1 Gbit/s operation
Frequent reconfiguration
Plug and play
Bound transmission delay
Video streaming
How does a field bus support modularity ?
Which advantages are expected from a field bus ?