Advanced in Control Engineeringand Information Science
The Study of Soft PLC Running System
Quan Liang
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, Li Li
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School of Mechanical Engineering, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang 110870, China
Abstract
PC-based automatic control system is low cost, open good, easy to use, etc., so it becomes a new direction in the
automation technology. The formulation of international standards EIC61131-3 not only normalizes the field of
industrial control programming language, but also provides the conditions for the development of PLC technology.
This paper introduces the theory of soft PLC, discusses the PLC software models and implementations based on the
EIC61131-3 standard, detailed describes the principle and implementation of soft PLC operating system programs,
designs soft PLC running system software based on industrial PC, constructs soft logic control system based on
industrial PC. Finally, the real-time performance and reliability of the soft PLC were verified. The results show that
the system is reliable and control effect is good.
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Keywords:
soft PLC; running system; virtual machine; instruction system; IEC61131-3
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Introduction
Soft PLC technology is a new type of control technology based on PC, compared with the traditional
PLC, which has an open architecture, powerful network communications capability and increased data
processing capability, can meet the requirements of modern industrial automation, is a hot spot in the field
of industrial automation at present
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The so called soft PLC, is to use a PC as the hardware support platform, use software to achieve the
basic function of traditional PLC. PLC control functions are encapsulated in the software, running on the
PC environment..
This control system provides a PLC control system of the same features, but with the advantages of the
PC’s. According to the traditional structure of PLC, The achievement of soft PLC is divided into two parts,
the development system and running system. Soft PLC running system is the core of the soft PLC,
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