Development of Real Time Embedded Control System for Transfer Arm Examination Facility in PFBR

R.Poornima*, G. Kannan**
* PG Scholar, Department of Electronics and Communication, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, India.
** Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication, B.S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, India.
Periodicity:February - April'2015
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jes.4.1.3692

Abstract

Transfer Arm (TA) is an offset arm type fuel-handling machine which is designed to handle core sub-assemblies consisting of fuel, absorber, blanket and reflector sub assemblies. The Transfer Arm Examination Facility (TAEF) control system is to facilitate the operation of Transfer Arm from the local control panel. The control system controls the raising and lowering of Guide Tube, raising and lowering of Gripper Hoist, rotation of Top Structure, opening and closing of Gripper Fingers and locking and unlocking of gripper hoist. The embedded control system has to be highly reliable as it will affect the safety and availability of nuclear plant. Hence, it is proposed to develop a real time embedded control system to carry out the safe operations on Transfer Arm. The project work involves, modelling the control logics (interlocks) using Safety Critical Application Development Environment (SCADE) suite, carryout the model coverage and simulation analysis and formal verification of the model using design verifier of the SCADE suite by creating few critical properties. The SCADE generated code has to be integrated with the hardware using cross complier, generate executable file and test the functionality system. The manual code shall contain necessary diagnostic logics to test the healthiness of the system. Adequate test cases have to be generated from the requirements. The status of all drives will be monitored through a GUI.

Keywords

Transfer Arm, Transfer Arm Examination Facility (TAEF), Guide Tube, Gripper Hoist, Gripper Finger, Top Structure, Local Control Panel, Display Station, SCADE

How to Cite this Article?

Poornima.R., and Kannan.G. (2015), Development of Real Time Embedded Control System for Transfer Arm Examination Facility in PFBR. i-manager’s Journal on Embedded Systems, 4(1), 24-27. https://doi.org/10.26634/jes.4.1.3692

References

[1]. Design Note on I&C of Transfer Arm Examination Facility -FBR/63522/CN/1010/R-0
[2]. Haifeng WANG, and Shou LIU. “Modeling Communications-Based Train Control System – Case study”, 2nd International conference on Industrial Mechatronics and Automation.
[3]. Lucas Martin, Maxim Schatalov, Matthias Hagner, and Ursula Golts, “A Methodology for Model Based Development and automated verification of software for Aerospace Systems”. IEEE pp 1-19.
[4]. Haifeng Wang and Shou Liu. “Study on Model-Based safety verification of Automatic Train protection System”, IEEE, pp 467-470.
[5]. Chemane, L.A. Nunes, A.F. and Hancke, G.P. “Integrating modern instrumentation, control and information technology in the undergraduate laboratory”. IEEE, Vol. 2, pp 1426-1431.
[6]. Kee-Choon Kwon, Soon-Ja Song, Won-Man Park, Jang-Soo Lee and Jang-Yeol Kim. “Development of the test simulator for advanced instrumentation and control research”. IEEE, pp 7/1-7/6.
[7]. Jie Qian, Jing Liu, Xiang Chen, and Junfeng Sun. “Modeling and Verification of Zone Controller: The SCADE Experience in China's Railway Systems”, IEEE, pp. 23.
[8]. Vidrasan, I. and Letia, T. “Conversion of Delay Time Petri net models into SCADE projects”, IEEE, pp 118-122.
[9]. Chan-Ho Cho, Dong-Hyuk Choi, Zhong-Hua Quan, Sun-Ah Choi, Gie-Soo Park, and Myung-Seon Ryou. “Modeling of CBTC carborne ATO functions using SCADE” IEEE, pp 1089-1093.
[10]. Wakankar, A., Bhattacharjee, A.K., Dhodapkar, S.D., Pandya, P.K. and Arya, K. “Automatic test case generation in model based software design to achieve higher reliability”. IEEE, pp. 493-499.
If you have access to this article please login to view the article or kindly login to purchase the article

Purchase Instant Access

Single Article

North Americas,UK,
Middle East,Europe
India Rest of world
USD EUR INR USD-ROW
Pdf 35 35 200 20
Online 35 35 200 15
Pdf & Online 35 35 400 25

Options for accessing this content:
  • If you would like institutional access to this content, please recommend the title to your librarian.
    Library Recommendation Form
  • If you already have i-manager's user account: Login above and proceed to purchase the article.
  • New Users: Please register, then proceed to purchase the article.