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Incorporating emergency alarms in reliable wireless process control

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Humberto Gonzalez,

Chenyang LuAuthors Info & Claims

ICCPS '15: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Sixth International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems

Pages 218 - 227

https://doi.org/10.1145/2735960.2735983

Published: 14 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed adoption of wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSANs) in process control. Many real-world process control systems must handle various emergency alarms under stringent timing constraints in addition to regular control loops. However, despite considerable theoretical results on wireless control, the problem of incorporating emergency alarms in wireless control has received little attention. This paper presents, to the best of our knowledge, the first systematic approach to incorporate emergency alarms into wireless process control. The challenge in emergency communication lies in the fact that emergencies occur occasionally, but must be delivered within their deadlines when they occur. The contributions of this work are three-fold: (1) we propose efficient real-time emergency communication protocols based on slot stealing and event-based communication; (2) we build an open-source WirelessHART protocol stack in the Wireless Cyber-Physical Simulator (WCPS) for holistic simulations of wireless control systems; (3) we conduct systematic studies on a coupled water tank system controlled over a 6-hop 21-node WSAN. Our results demonstrate our real-time emergency communication approach enables timely emergency handling, while allowing regular feedback control loops to effectively share resources in WSANs during normal operations.

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