Engineering & runtime environment for distributed automation and control systems

 The top–level approach focuses on replacing state–of–the–art “ramp down—stop—download—restart—ramp up” methods with a simple continuous system evolution, which is controlled by an evolution control application that is modelled with components in the same way as control applications. Evolution control can be either executed from an engineering environment or—if constraints regarding fault tolerance, real–time and safety have to be met—it can be distributed to different controllers. For safe and fault–tolerant control and evolution execution the reconfiguration application is verified together with hardware capability descriptions of the different devices in the network leading to trustable QoS judgment.