Towards Topology-Free Programming for Cyber-Physical Systems with Process-Oriented Paradigm

Abstract

The paper proposes a topology-free specification of distributed control systems by means of a process-oriented programming paradigm. The proposed approach was characterized, on the one hand, by a topologically independent specification of the control algorithm and, on the other hand, by the possibility of using existing formal verification methods by preserving the semantics of a centralized process-oriented program. The paper discusses the advantages of a topologically independent specification of distributed control systems, outlines the features of control software, argues why the use of a process-oriented approach to the development of the automation of cyber-physical systems is suitable for solving these problems, describes a general scheme for implementing a distributed control system according to a process-oriented specification, and proposes a formal heuristic algorithm for partitioning a sequential process-oriented program into independent clusters. We illustrate our algorithm with bottle-filling and sluice case studies.

Keywords

• distributed control systems
• control software
• process-oriented programming
• topology-independent algorithm specifications
• hyperprocess