WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES IN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEMS

摘要

Automatic control has played a vital role in the advance of engineering and science and it has become an important and integral part of modern manufacturing and industrial processes. One of the main ingredients of automation is undoubtedly control, which means information being collected, processed and delivered back to each actuator. Although the use of wireline-based field area networks is dominant, wireless technology offers a range of incentives in a number of application areas. In industrial automation, for example, wireless device (sensor/actuator) networks can provide the support for mobile robots operation, monitoring and control of hazardous and difficult-to-access equipment.