The Research and Construction of Virtual PLC Laboratory based on Configuration Software

DOI

10.2991/emcs-16.2016.115How to use a DOI?

Keywords

PLC; Configuration software; Virtual experiment; Design thoughts; Realization

Abstract

The controlling objects of PLC were simulated by configuration software, and the virtual PLC Laboratory based web environment was built using the web publishing capabilities of configuration software. In this article, Taking Zijin Bridge configuration software as a platform, a Siemens s7-200 PLC as a control device, verifies the feasibility of virtual PLC laboratory construction based on Web access. The designed thoughts, network, function construction and designed procession were described in detail. This system provides a virtual environment similar to the actual experiment for students. In this experiment, students can operate remotely the designed experiment, and the experimental data and results can be observed at the same time. Students can learn experimental project purpose, principles and related information by system help. Teachers can monitor and evaluate experiment results. This scheme solves the difficulties of the PLC traditional experimental methods. The system is low cost, maintenance-free, flexible, strong commonality and high security etc.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuyan Zhang
AU  - Na Zhang
AU  - Xichang Han
AU  - Zefan Jiang
PY  - 2016/01
DA  - 2016/01
TI  - The Research and Construction of Virtual PLC Laboratory based on Configuration Software
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 480
EP  - 483
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/emcs-16.2016.115
DO  - 10.2991/emcs-16.2016.115
ID  - Zhang2016/01
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