Re: Ada / Automation fellows

[slos <new.stephane.los@gmail.com>]

Le jeudi 26 mars 2015 16:11:15 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 03:37:40 -0700 (PDT), slos wrote:
> 
> > Feeling alone, I have tried to see if any other fellows were interested in
> > doing automation applications in Ada.
> >
> > I have only found those guys but I have seen not much on their web site
> > and my message in the contact page got no reply :
> > http://adaautomation.com/web/
> > 
> > Are they reading this list ?
> 
> Not much is there.
> 
> > I have also found this interesting paper :
> > http://www.ias.uni-stuttgart.de/lehre/praktika/industrialautomation/unterlagen/02-ADA-en.pdf
> 
> This is close to what we do, however, our projects are much larger and have
> much more different hardware involved.
> 
> For a PLC, real-time control is not such a big problem as communication
> with the outer world while keeping real-time.
> 
> As for GTK, you might find with useful for designing HMI and SCADA:
> 
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/aicwl.htm
> 
> > Anyone working in industrial automation field ?
> 
> I do. We have a middleware written in Ada for dealing with various hardware
> under real-time constraints, e.g. EtherCAT, CAN, XCP, iTOT, GPIO etc.
> Application is mostly in automotive and energy. Some are embedded some are
> not.
>  
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Hello Dmitry,

We have already discussed about industrial communication. You dislike communication boards and so there is no more to say about this. ;-)

For having fiddled around your web site and CV, I believe you that the systems you create in Ada are bigger than the average ones that "Ada for Automation" wishes to address.

Of course I have had a try at AICWL which is great software to learn how to draw with Cairo and GTK+ but I can't imagine someone creating dozens of synoptics this way. For dashboards, that's really cool.

In some of our products we use this technology :
http://www.atvise.com/en/

It's HTML, SVG, JavaScript... and I was impressed by the achievement.
And so I was looking for some free alternative and found MBLogic which uses same web technologies and Python for the logic and web server :
http://mblogic.sourceforge.net/index.html

I was wondering how to put this on top of AWS and learning how to draw with Inkscape when Mister Botton came with Gnoga, pushing my wheel further...
Gnoga seems to fit perfectly in my project and I guess we can use AICWL when high refresh rate is required for example. I still need to figure out how to connect easily the GUI, SVG and the logic.

Thanks for Simple Components, AICWL and the other cool stuff you have created and offered to the world.

BR,
Stéphane
http://slo-ist.fr/ada4autom