公开(公告)号：US20210349454A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-11

申请号：US17382397

申请日：2021-07-22

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Mario Hoernicke ,  Katharina Stark ,  Dirk Schulz ,  Raoul Jetley

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  E04H5/02

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for generating a construction plan for a modular plant that is to execute a given industrial process includes: providing a flow chart of the industrial process, the flow chart including a sequence of actions, each action having at least one input for an educt to be processed by the action and at least one output for a product produced by the action, at least one product of one action being an educt for another action; providing at least one catalogue of module descriptions, each module description characterizing at least the educt inputs and the product outputs of at least one physical process module, and physical actions performed within the physical process module; and decomposing the flow chart into functional units with at least one educt input, at least one product output, and one or more actions leading from the one or more educts.

公开(公告)号：US20200380126A1

公开(公告)日：2020-12-03

申请号：US16886794

申请日：2020-05-29

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Dirk Schulz ,  Raoul Jetley

IPC: G06F21/56 ,  G06F21/57 ,  G06F21/54

Abstract: A method for detection of harmful process intent in an intent-based production process includes: providing a machine-readable production model linking an intent model, correlating to process intent, including production process functions, constraints on measurable properties on the production process functions, and/or production process function sequences required for the production process, and a process model, correlating to process knowledge comprising a production process behavior; determining a safety library of at least one safety process intent, the safety library being protected by security mechanisms to be maintained outside of regular intent-based engineering mechanisms and operation mechanisms; evaluating changes of process intent in view of potentially harmful process intent dependent on the at least one safety process intent; and providing a report of potentially harmful process intent for auditing based on the potentially harmful process intent.

公开(公告)号：US12298751B2

公开(公告)日：2025-05-13

申请号：US17382387

申请日：2021-07-22

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Jan Christoph Schlake ,  Mario Hoernicke ,  Dirk Schulz

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G05B13/04

Abstract: A method for generating a dynamic model of an industrial plant having: a plurality of physical processes that are dependent such that an outcome of at least one first process is fed into at least one second process; a plurality of low-level controllers, each controller acting upon at least one physical process such that at least one process variable of the at least one physical process is controlled to match a set-point of the low-level controller; and a plurality of sensors, each sensor measuring at least one process variable of one of the physical processes, and/or of the plant as a whole, the set-points of the low-level controllers and current values of the process variables measured by the sensors being the inputs of the model, and predicted future values of the process variables that are likely to result from applying the set-points to the low-level controllers being the outputs.

公开(公告)号：US12153406B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-26

申请号：US17419514

申请日：2019-12-20

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Raoul Jetley ,  Divyasheel Sharma ,  Abdulla Puthan Peedikayil ,  Dirk Schulz ,  Vadthyavath Ramu

IPC: G05B19/418

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system to generate control logic for performing industrial processes with a controller in a process plant. The method includes receiving a control narrative comprising one or more control requirements of the industrial process, and extracting a plurality of control entities and a plurality of set points, from the control narrative using one or more sets of predetermined regular expressions and one or more models. The method further includes identifying a set of inputs, outputs and control elements from the plurality of control entities using a domain dictionary, detecting a plurality of actions from the control narrative using an intent classifier, identifying a relationship between the set of inputs, outputs and control elements, the plurality of set points, and the plurality of actions, and generating based on the relationship identified the control logic for the controller to perform the process.

公开(公告)号：US20240356801A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-24

申请号：US18635155

申请日：2024-04-15

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Pablo Rodriguez ,  Dirk Schulz

IPC: H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L47/2475 ,  H04L47/28 ,  H04L67/12

CPC classification number: H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L47/2475 ,  H04L47/28 ,  H04L67/12

Abstract: A method for creating a configuration of a communication network, which includes networking and automation devices with embedded networking functions, the automation devices comprising communication endpoints providing and/or consuming application data of attached automation application functions running on the automation devices. The method includes communicating information about application functions and intents, receiving and resolving, by determining physical or virtual devices according to the network topology, to obtain identities and addresses of the communication endpoints; receiving timing information and further QoS requirements, and binding, taking into account the timing information and the further QoS requirements; creating qualified connectivity requests for the communication between the identifiable and addressable communication endpoints, and obtaining configuration information according to which the process network can be configured.

公开(公告)号：US20240348469A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-17

申请号：US18631324

申请日：2024-04-10

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Dirk Schulz

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L9/40

CPC classification number: H04L12/185 ,  H04L12/1863 ,  H04L63/104

Abstract: A computer-implemented method automatically configures multicast forwarding between network participants of an industrial network on a need-to-know basis, the method comprising automatically generating one or more directed multicast trees.

公开(公告)号：US20230189060A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-15

申请号：US18080837

申请日：2022-12-14

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Dirk Schulz

IPC: H04W28/02 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04W48/06

CPC classification number: H04W28/0289 ,  H04W28/0983 ,  H04W28/0992 ,  H04W48/06 ,  H04W88/18

Abstract: A method for orchestrating use of a communications network for conveying a plurality of data streams transmitted by a plurality of applications includes attributing levels of importance to individual or groups of data streams, determining based at least in part on the levels of importance and on network capacity requirements of the data streams an ordered list of data streams to be curtailed or stopped in case of a shortage of bandwidth in the communications network, providing the list to a management entity that monitors available bandwidth, compares available bandwidth to a combined bandwidth requirement and, in response to determining that the available bandwidth is, or is imminent to become, less than the combined bandwidth requirement, curtails or stops data streams in the order given by the list so as to bring the combined bandwidth requirement back to or below the available bandwidth.

公开(公告)号：US20230127026A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-27

申请号：US17972956

申请日：2022-10-25

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Dirk Schulz

IPC: G05B19/418

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for orchestrating the deterministic execution of a given workload on at least one computing platform, comprising determining a consumption of at least one computing resource and a consumption of at least one communications resource that result from executing a given workload or a part thereof; determining, from these consumptions and a given set of requirements that relate to the timing, synchronicity and/or availability of executing the given workload or part thereof, at least one performance requirement with respect to execution of the workload or part thereof; and negotiating, with a management entity of the computing platform, execution of the workload or part thereof on the computing platform according to the at least one performance requirement.

公开(公告)号：US20220121716A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-21

申请号：US17502893

申请日：2021-10-15

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Somayeh Malakuti ,  Dirk Schulz ,  Johannes Schmitt ,  Sten Gruener ,  Ralf Gitzel ,  Prerna Juhlin

IPC: G06F16/953 ,  G06F16/955

Abstract: A method for automatically supplying or locating data over a communication network comprising: configuring a data source to provide source data over the communication network, the source data being identified by a data identifier in a domain of identifiers; receiving a machine-readable description, the machine-readable description specifying at least one predicate that must be satisfied by the data; labeling data identified by the data identifier with labels at least in part indicative of data predicates that hold true for the data identified by the data identifier or that are satisfiable for the data identified by the data identifier; searching for the data based at least in part on the machine-readable description and the labels; obtaining a solution satisfying the predicate based on the search; and supplying the solution over the communication network to a data consumer.

公开(公告)号：US20210397173A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-23

申请号：US17462017

申请日：2021-08-31

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Dirk Schulz ,  Raoul Jetley

IPC: G05B19/418

Abstract: An intent-based automation engineering method for automation of a production process includes: receiving an intent model, correlating to process intent, including production process functions, constraints on measurable properties on the production process functions, and/or production process function sequences required for the production process, as a received intent model; receiving a process model, correlating to process knowledge including a production process behavior, as a received process model; determining a machine-readable production model linking the received intent model to the received process model as a provided production model; and determining a control strategy for controlling the production process dependent on the provided production model as a determined control strategy.