Research Of CORBA-based Embedded FMS Control System

FMS (Flexible Manufacturing System) is a manufacturing system with flexible character and high degree of automation. As a result of its complexity, developing control system for FMS needs much time, money and technology. It will make great significance to develop control system with the characteristics of configurability and reconfigureability to satisfy the market requires rapidly.After analyzing the characteristics of centralized, hierarchical, distributed, hybrid-architecture, hierarchical distributed control system architecture of FMS is built under the background of general FMS, the components and characteristics of this architecture is discussed. Based on the functional model and object-oriented model of FMS, the functional components of control system are designed, and the software architecture model of the control system is proposed with the CORBA component technology. The software architecture model has been applied to a didactical FMS in Beijing Jiao Tong University, and the process is described that embedded system is transplanted to an ARM embedded development platform and CORBA is realized on an embedded operating system. Finally, application effects of model and the characteristics of developed control system are described, and the research work of the whole dissertation is concluded, the problem and further work is discussed.