Aplicação do protocolo aberto OPC e do FOSS Scilab no desenvolvimento de um módulo laboratorial para controle de processos industriais

Abstract

In face of the challenges of the current industrial systems, which needs to operate in an economic, efficient and sustainable forms, new procedures and strategies for control these processes are always in search of innovation. This situation motivated and directed the aim of this work that was to use open tools, innovative, current use in industry, to develop a laboratory module, with characteristics multivariable, emulating the industrial ambience, with respect to the dynamics of the selected loops. We used the digital communication protocol " OLE for Process Control - OPC software" and " Free and Open Source Software - FOSS" Scilab, both open source tools. The OPC protocol is specific to industrial environments, adding qualities that enable the management and control of a real-time system with efficiency and quality. And the Scilab software, FOSS tool that, among its many features, allows the development and communication of a supervisory for a physical system, interacting throught the OPC communication protocol. For the scope of the proposal we developed a laboratory module for multivariable process control, allowing the modeling and control of a system composed of meshes of level and temperature, common in industry. It was also developed an environment friendly supervisory techniques which includes different control for the "Proportional Integral Derivative - PID" controller, as well as analysis and control of dynamic SISO and multivariable of the system.