Title: Multi-platform and open source development tool for automation

Authors: David Delfieu; Maurice Comlan; Narcisse Assogba

Addresses: Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes, 1, Rue de la Noe, BP 92101 44321, Nantes Cedex 3, France ' Ecole Nationale d'Economie Appliqueé et de Management, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, 01 BP 526, Cotonou, Bénin ' Erlab-Noroit, 13 Rue des Coteaux de Grand Lieu, 44830 Bouaye, France

Abstract: This paper presents an open source tool allowing to embed a grafcet onto a micro-controller board. This tool assists the user throughout the entire process, starting from the design of the grafcet, defining and assigning inputs and outputs, generating the code, and finally facilitating its download onto a micro-controller board. The graphical part of this software use a J_AVA-based package JG_RAFCHART for the definition of the interface, and regarding the code generation, the semantics rules of evolution are precisely presented. An application case illustrates the use of the software from modelling to electronic assembly. Temporal data relevant to the application is provided, discussing the limitations stemming from input-output constraints. All of this information helps delineate the domain and scope of applications suitable for this approach.

Keywords: grafcet; Arduino; programmable logic controller; code generation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAMECHS.2024.139172

International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems, 2024 Vol.11 No.2, pp.63 - 72

Received: 16 Aug 2023
Accepted: 19 Dec 2023
Published online: 24 Jun 2024 *

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