Publisher's Synopsis
Industrial automation is the use of control systems, such as computers or robots, and information technologies for handling different processes and machineries in an industry to replace a human being. The text Industrial Automation: Circuit Design and Components covers methods immediately applicable to industrial problems, showing how to select the most appropriate control method for a given application, then design the necessary circuit. First chapter discusses evolvable metaheuristics on circuit design. Statistical analog circuit simulation has been focused in second chapter. A new approach to biasing design of analog circuits has been presented in third chapter. Advanced statistical methodologies for tolerance analysis in analog circuit design have been proposed in fourth chapter. In fifth chapter, we describe the principles and elements of FRIDGE and outline the seamless design flow as it becomes possible with this design environment. A hybrid system approach for high consumption industrial furnace control has been described in sixth chapter. Seventh chapter discusses possible alternatives to integrate the current but also the emerging specification of IEC 61131 in the model driven development process of automation systems. A secure, intelligent, and smart-sensing approach for industrial system automation and transmission over unsecured wireless networks has been presented in eighth chapter. In ninth chapter, we provide a detailed survey on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) standards dedicated to industrial automation networks. In last chapter, we propose a methodology based on an automatic generation of a fault tree to evaluate the reliability and availability of wireless sensor networks, when permanent faults occur on network devices.
