Agenda

The goal of this workshop is to define a vision for the future of a common libre software project, to agree on a common framework and to discuss concrete suggestions for the integration of as many projects as possible. For this sake presentations on current projects are made and in particular on how the authors see a united "Linux in control" future.
(If you want to make a presentation of your project, please write an email to Peter Wurmsdobler)

The meeting will take two days. The first day is mainly dedicated to presentations of projects, to learn from each other. There will be a social event that evening, too. The second day will be entirely reserved for discussions.

Friday May 9 2003

9:00, Linux in control projects, now and in future

• 09:00, matPLC - linux based automation
  Mario de Sousa , matPLC
• 09:20, Open Robot Control Software
  Herman Bruyninckx , OROCOS
• 09:40, The LME Craftsman Project
  John Storrs , Laboratory for Micro Enterprise
• 10:00, CanFestival today and tomorrow
  Eduoard Tisserant , CANfestival

10:20, Coffee break

10:40, Linux implementation experience and considerations

• 10:40, ACElab plant supervision
  Juan Carlos Orozco , ACElab
• 11:00, ProcessViewBrowser - QT based HMI and SCADA
  Rainer Lehrig , Lehrig Software Engineering
• 11:20, Embedded system framework for Control systems - general design issues
  Nicholas McGuire , RTLinux/GPL Austria
• 11:40, Using Real-Time Linux to control mechatronic drive systems
  Hannes Toepfer , Institut fuer Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme

12:00, Lunch break

13:00, Going beyond individual projects

• 13:00, OCEAN and the PENGUIN PC
  Fabrizio Meo , Fidia S.p.A.
• 13:20, CLAWAR network -- open modular robot standards and the role of Linux
  Rich Walker , Shadow Robot Company
• 13:40, PLCopen - supporting and enhancing standards in industrial control
  Eelco van der Val , PLCopen
• 14:00, The Discipline of the Market -- or -- What we need to do to succeed with a broad based open controls initiative
  Randy Skelding , Pratt and Whitney Cenco - Computer Engineering Deptartment

14:20, Coffee break

15:00, Discussions with all participants/project groups/task forces

• Discuss and generate a list of requirements for a libre control an automation software system, tools such as data collection and plotting, IDE for control task programming, programming languages and environements, run time systems, etc.
• Generate a list of all known projects in the control and automation area, and find categories what functionality they offer, where there is some overlapping and some complementarity. This is a status quo analysis carried out together.
Discuss existing Standards the communitiy wants to adhere to in order to gain more acceptance and market momentum. These define the interface of the project to the industrial world.
• Discuss and agree on a general framework, a long-term and modular design of a libre control an automation software system. Determine the modules and how they map to existing projects or to projects yet to be spawn.
• Try to modularize some existing projects more than they are now, in order to get more easily to the critical mass of the whole.
• Discuss an action plan and mile stones for the framework and for each group who wants to participate in developement of a libre control and automation software package.

17:00, End of first day

19:00, Come together in some Leuven bar or restaurant

Saturday May 10 2003

9:00, Discussions with all participants/project groups/task forces

17:00, End of second day