ЖУРНАЛ СТА 3/2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS CTA 3/2009 DEVELOPMENT/ Board Сontrol Systems 66 Missile simulation systems By Victor Starostin, Evgeniy Lovkov and Nikolay Vasiliev The article provides a brief description of a hardware software complex of a missile simulation system illustrated by the example of a specific development. Missile simulation systems are designed for checking airborne missile test and readiness systems and training flight personnel. The systems are capable of eliminating the necessity of using expensive operational missiles at these stages. 68 Implementation of object detection and selection algorithms based on the FASTWEL™ modules in the onboard optical location equipment By Artyom Aksenov and Sergey Kapralov The article deals with the issues concerning the implementation of the object detection and selection algorithms in the onboard optical location equipment. Comparing the parameters of the processor modules available at the market, the article gives reasons – within the stated requirements – for preference of PC/104 Plus FASTWEL™ CPC304 single board computer. DEVELOPMENT/ Research 72 High efficiency scalable multiprocessor computer systems By Aleksandr Buravlev, Mark Cheldiev, Aleksandr Barybin, Valeriy Kostenko, Denis Tumakin and Galina Petrova The article describes a highly efficient universal multiprocessing system designed for solving the application computing tasks requiring the parallel organization of calculations. The system is based on the nodes with the Intel Core micro architecture processors, and the nodes are connected with Infiniband, a high speed real time interconnect. HARDWARE/ Sensors 78 Replacement must be made in time! How Metran 150 differs from traditional pressure sensors By Evgeniy Tikhostup The pressure sensors Metran 150 have been operated in more than 1000 enterprises in Russia and CIS for three years. Tough laboratory and polygon tests are permanently conducted. Confident in the superior technical characteristics, wide functionality and high operational reliability, the management of Metran industrial group made the decision to recommend the customers to use Metran 150 instead of its predecessor Metran 100. HARDWARE/ Information Display 80 GOT1000 operator terminals: from the simple control panels to the platform solutions By Sergey Zubov The article presents the new models and the benefits of the GOT Series operator terminals from Mitsubishi Electric. SOFTWARE/ Real Time Operating Systems 82 Support of the FASTWEL ™ CPC600 VME SBC in real time systems based on QNX Neutrino By Mikhail Kolesov The article focuses on the issues concerning the use of the VME specification which is now one of the most popular standards for building the passive backplane systems. The article gives a brief overview of the VME bus functions. Particular emphasis is placed on the specific features for support of a VME single board computer in the QNX Neutrino hard real time operating system. 86 Standard QNX Neutrino mechanisms to provide the fault tolerance hard real time computing systems By Sergey Zyl Reliability is one of the most important characteristics of industrial control systems. The article provides an overview of the basic QNX Neutrino RTOS mechanisms which enable the system integrators and designers of the automatic process control systems to build the distributed computing complexes with the specified fault tolerance level. STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATION 92 "Paper" features of the national military electronics By Oleg Pisarenko and Victor Babarykin The article covers the issues on compliance of the legal and regulatory base to the interests of development of military electronics. This paper is a continuation and extension of D. Kobzar's article "The procedural issues of application of the electronic devices in defense technology: the legislative basis and the realities of life" published in CTA 3/2007. Both articles will help readers understand the changes occurred in this field for the last two years. 110 Criteria for choosing the SIL 3 level components for the distributed control systems and safety instrumented systems in accordance wit the IEC standards. Part 1 By Glizente Landrini The article describes the selection criteria for the components to be used in the distributed control systems and various safety systems for SIL 2 and SIL 3 applications as recommended in the IEC 61508 and 61511 standards. Also included are examples on how these criteria are used. EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS 116 PTA Exhibitions – automation for entire Russia 118 The success of the QNX Technology Day is proof that the Russian IT community is interested in the advanced QNX RTOS technologies 118 New solutions from Advantech for industrial automation professionals 118 Optimal solutions for a hard time SHOWROOM 119 SYSTEM INTEGRATION PROJECTS IN BRIEF 125 NEWS 46, 112 REVIEW/ Embedded Systems 8 CompactPCI and PXI: they do not compete, they complement each other. Part 2 By Andrey Golovastov The article is based on the materials of the regular seminars "Embedded Systems: Promising Solutions for the Critical Tasks and Harsh Operating Conditions" and is dedicated to the CompactPCI and PXI systems. Also discussed are the fundamental principles of construction and architecture of the systems of these standards. The article offers, as an example, a brief overview of the relevant products from ADLINK specifying their potential applications. Particular attention focuses on the 3U format products. REVIEW/ Industrial Networks 12 FieldConnex ® concept for the FOUNDATION Fieldbus H1 and PROFIBUS PA industrial networks: performance increase and cost reduction. Part 2 By Victor Zhdankin The article presents the FieldConnex ® concept from Pepperl+Fuchs for the construction of the industrial networks in the hazardous areas. They combine various intrinsically safe types and provide communication with the control systems located in a safe area. Also included is a brief description of the main components of the FieldConnex ® system: field barrier modules, segment protectors and discrete input/output modules. 16 Redundancy of the Industrial Ethernet at OSI level 2: standards and technologies By Ivan Lopukhov The article covers the typical Ethernet redundancy methods implemented in the industrial switches to improve the data transfer efficiency. Also discussed are the advantages and disadvantages of the individual technologies as well as the issues concerning their common use in the mixed networks. 22 Introduction to the Modbus protocol. Part 2. Modbus Serial and Modbus TCP By George Thomas The article continues the description of the Modbus protocol: Modbus over Serial Line and Modbus TCP/IP are discussed. SYSTEM INTEGRATION/ Marine Equipment 28 Experience of the integrated automation of the high speed ships By Yaroslav Evdokimov and Andrey Sorokin The article describes the problems occurred when designing automatic systems for high speed ships. The paper provides the main ways to solve these problems through the example of an integrated automation system jointly developed by LLC Agat Design Bureau and NPK LENPROMAVTOMATIKA. The system has been introduced in a high speed passenger ship and sea multipurpose boat. DEVELOPMENT/ Marine Equipment 40 A universal console controller based on the cPCI and VME bus By Andrey Ivanov, Ruslan Kozachuk, Anastasyia Prokopenko and Vasiliy Sysoev The article presents the principles of modular architecture of the universal console controllers for the marine automated radioelectronic systems for various applications utilizing advanced computing facilities. Also described is a universal console control enclosure designed by JSC Concern "Granit Elektron" and CC SPC "Aquamarine". The paper provides examples of the implementation of the console control devices with the multiprocessor systems based on the cPCI bus. 44 Automatic control system of a compressor station By Evgeniy Cherednik, Ilya Viktorov, Olga Matiychuk, Aleksandr Abramov and Sergey Khvoshch The article provides a brief description of one of the commercial products manufactured by CJSC Elcus – a set of instruments to control a compressor station. The product was developed in 2005. It is now being delivered on commercial terms to the naval ships under construction. DEVELOPMENT/ Shipping 48 Automated data acquisition and processing system for a high speed towing tank By Victor Kochin and Vladimir Moroz Model tests in a towing tank are the most effective way for studying the hydrodynamic and aerodynamic properties of the modern types of ships. The article discusses the specific features of the automated data acquisition and processing system for a high speed towing tank at the Institute of Hydromechanics NAS of Ukraine. DEVELOPMENT/ Aviation 52 Automated control system for the operation of the MAP 2 Unit for ion plasma coating in vacuum By Aleksei Bodyagin The article describes the control system of a unit for the protective coating for jet aircraft turbine blades. Also discussed are the benefits of the automation of the unit and the need for the unification of the hardware/software solutions to allow for its replication. Particular emphasis is given to the implementation of the upper level of the system based on GENESIS32 SCADA components. 58 Firing test stand for pulse detonation engines By German Govorenko, Vladimir Porshnev, Dmitriy Teterin and Aleksei Zhebrakov The article describes the experience of designing a stand for testing pulse detonation engines. Also discussed are the architecture and functions of the stand and the capabilities of the employed hardware and software devices. 64 Distributed control of unmanned aerial vehicles By Bob McIlvride For the past several years, students and faculty at the Vehicle Dynamics Lab (VDL) of the University of California, Berkeley, have been developing a system of coordinated distributed control, communications, and vision based control among a group of several unmanned aircraft. The control system for each aircraft runs on a PC/104 computer with a QNX 6 operating system. Control is divided into three kinds of processes: communication, image processing, and task control. All of these processes interact through Cascade DataHub. СТА 3/2009 www.cta.ru 128 CD ROM in this issue ADLINK © СТА-ПРЕСС