Daedalus is conceived to enable the full exploitation of the CPS (Cyber Physical System) concept of virtualized intelligence, through the adoption of a completely distributed automation platform based on IEC 61499 standard, fostering the creation of a Digital Ecosystem that could go beyond the current limits of manufacturing control systems and propose an ever-growing market of innovative solutions for the design, engineering, production and maintenance of plants’ automation.
Daedalus proposes the deployment of an Automation Ecosystem for a multi-sided market based on a new generation of distributed intelligent devices (CPS) that, existing both in the real and in the cyber (simulated) world, can be aggregated, orchestrated and re-configured to exhibit complex manufacturing behaviours that optimize the performance of future shop floor. The initiative focuses on key topics for the competitiveness of Europe and its companies, encompassing a variety of interdisciplinary tasks with the objective of deploying a digital platform and multi-sided ecosystem for the industrial automation domain.
| Web resources: |
http://daedalus.iec61499.eu
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/723248 |
| Start date: | 01-10-2016 |
| End date: | 30-09-2019 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | 5 079 796,00 Euro - 3 994 296,00 Euro |
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Original description
Daedalus is conceived to enable the full exploitation of the CPS concept of virtualized intelligence, through the adoption of a completely distributed automation platform based on IEC-61499 standard, fostering the creation of a Digital Ecosystem that could go beyond the current limits of manufacturing control systems and propose an ever-growing market of innovative solutions for the design, engineering, production and maintenance of plants’ automation.The following objectives will be reached:
-)Ease the conception, development and distribution of intelligence into CPS for real-time execution of orchestrated manufacturing tasks;
-)Foster interoperability of CPS from different vendors at orchestration-level (= “between CPS”);
-)Simplify the design, implementation and integration of optimal coordinating control intelligence of CPS;
-)Enable near-real-time co-simulation of manufacturing systems as a fully integrated “service” of a CPS;
-)Create a Digital Marketplace to simplify the matchmaking between offer and demand within the Ecosystem;
-)Conceive a multi-sided business model for the Automation Ecosystem and the corresponding business plans for its Complementors;
-)Foster the widespread acceptance of the Ecosystem platform to guarantee success and impact of Daedalus multi-sided market.
The project approach is based on 3 technological pillars, one platform pillar and a final ecosystem pillar:
1)IEC61499-based reconfigurable automation platform for distributed orchestration of interoperable CPS;
2)“Simulation-as-a-service” for integrated near-real-time co-simulation of CPS behavioural models;
3)Advanced SDKs for simplified design of hierarchically distributed optimal control applications;
4)Digital Marketplace for the creation of an interdependent ecosystem of automation solutions providers;
5)Proof-of-concept showcases to accelerate the involvement of “complementors” and the maturation of the Ecosystem.
Status
CLOSEDCall topic
FOF-11-2016Update Date
27-10-2022
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| Synesis (Coördinator)
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| ACT OPERATIONS RESEARCH UK LTD
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| BLUEBOTICS SA
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| CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR)
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| HMS TECHNOLOGY CENTER RAVENSBURG GMBH
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| JETTER AG
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| LIBELIUM COMUNICACIONES DISTRIBUIDAS SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
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| LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET
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| NXTCONTROL GmbH
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| OWL SOLUTIONS SA
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| QBROBOTICS SRL
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| SCHUNK GMBH & CO KG SPANN- UND GREIFTECHNIK
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| TTS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SYSTEMS SRL
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| University of applied sciences and arts of southern switzerland (SUPSI)
Daedalus developments are based on the only existing international standard for distributed industrial automation, the IEC-61499. The standard already exists in more than one deployed implementations. During the project an open and international standardization action will be coordinated, leading to the creation of a CWA (CEN/CENELEC Workshop Agreement).