EP3140741A1 - Method and device for implementing a transaction concept in opc ua by means of a time-out mechanism - Google Patents
Method and device for implementing a transaction concept in opc ua by means of a time-out mechanismInfo
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- EP3140741A1 EP3140741A1 EP14735499.7A EP14735499A EP3140741A1 EP 3140741 A1 EP3140741 A1 EP 3140741A1 EP 14735499 A EP14735499 A EP 14735499A EP 3140741 A1 EP3140741 A1 EP 3140741A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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- H04L67/60—Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources
- H04L67/62—Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
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- G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
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Definitions
- OPC UA OPC Unified Architecture
- OPC Foundation OPC Foundation for vendor-independent communication for the exchange of machine data, especially in process automation.
- OPC UA is a relatively new standard, where the original focus was not on the control of an industrial plant, but rather on the standardized exchange of information, especially between devices from different manufacturers.
- OPC UA is also integrated directly into automation devices, creating the need for consistent data writing.
- process information such as process values, measured values, parameters, control commands
- process information such as process values, measured values, parameters, control commands
- variables are considered individually (even within a write call, a so-called WRITE call, with several variables);
- the server informs the client about individual status codes (per variable).
- Other options are not provided in the specification.
- the information model specified by OPC UA is no longer just a hierarchy of folders, items, and properties. It is a so-called full mesh network of nodes that, in addition to the payload of a node, also represents meta and diagnostic information.
- a node is similar to an object from object-oriented programming.
- a node can have attributes that can be read (Data Access DA, Historical Data Access HDA). It is possible to define and call methods.
- a method has call arguments and return values. It is called by a command.
- events that can be sent (AE, DA DataChange) are supported in order to exchange certain information between devices. An event has among other things a time of reception, a message and a severity level.
- AE DA DataChange
- Nodes are used for both payload and all other types of metadata.
- the modeled OPC address space now includes a type model that specifies all data types.
- a client and a server could agree that the server perceives a write call as just one consistent write and only accepts or rejects this call as a whole.
- client and server are tailored to each other.
- Client and server must exchange the information that they are tailored to each other, d. H. this information must be z. B. in the log.
- a method for communication between an OPC UA client and an OPC UA server is required
- Client / server system using the OPC-UA communication protocol calls being used to interact with the client with the OPC-UA server.
- the execution of the OPC-UA calls is thereby to be carried out transaction-based, wherein the OPC-UA calls contain an indication of an earliest time of execution of the OPC-UA call on the server and the at least one OPC-UA call is received by the server and initially saved.
- the "TimeoutHint" field exists in the OPC UA request header, with which the client can specify when it is no longer interested in the result of an operation or the duration after which the server is allowed to delete a message (presumably "circulating").
- the server sends a response that the operation was aborted.
- the semantics of the "TimeoutHint" field in the OPC UA request header are used differently than originally provided in the standard.
- the meaning of the "TimeoutHint” is changed so that it no longer specifies the latest time at which an operation is executed should be, but the earliest.
- This mechanism allows multiple operations to be stored in the server, which are then executed concurrently upon the arrival of the trigger.
- the information provided by the client in the "TimeoutHints" and timestamps must correlate to define an exact execution time.
- a first advantageous embodiment operates in a "delayed response" mode.
- the server keeps the requests until the trigger arrives and only gives the client an answer when either the time period specified in "TimeoutHint" has expired or when a suitable trigger is sent by the client.
- the client has the client its own status code for each item that it modifies.
- the response to the trigger that goes from the server to the client contains the overall result of the operation.
- the responses with the detail information are also sent to the previously collected requests to the client.
- the operations are formally checked when they arrive on the server (for example, the desired network nodes exist).
- the client In the event of an error, the client immediately receives a response with the information about the formal errors that have occurred.
- the preview mode is presented as a second advantageous embodiment.
- the client receives for each stored operation immediately, d. H. not only after the arrival of the trigger, a response from the server about the expected outcome of the operation, irrespective of whether the operation is successful or not. So he gets a preview of what would happen if the operations were done.
- the client determines that one of the operations performed would not produce the desired result, it can discard the operations by not sending a trigger. If the client wants the operations to be executed, it sends the trigger. In response to the trigger, the client receives the information about the overall result of all executed operations. In an advantageous embodiment, the actual detailed results of the executed operations can be sent by the server via the event mechanism.
- the client can prematurely abort the operation via an abort message. He does not have to wait for the timeout.
- the execution time may advantageously be set either over a time notified by means of the trigger operation or over the timeout time of the preceding operations.
- time-out mechanism is an easy way to implement and manage operations in a single transaction.
- the complex management of a transaction by transaction contexts, etc. is eliminated, since the cohesion of operations is synchronized over a time.
- the OPC UA protocol does not have to be changed.
- the client and server must have the same understanding of how to use the TimeoutHint field. on this can z. B. be replaced in the connection setup.
- FIG. 1 shows an exemplary application of the invention in the automation environment
- FIG. 2 shows an exemplary communication between client and server according to the first exemplary embodiment
- Figure 3 shows an exemplary communication between client and server according to the second embodiment
- FIG. 4 shows another exemplary communication with simulated intermediate results.
- the exemplary task which the automation system is to perform is the mixing of green color from yellow and blue liquids, see FIG. 1.
- valves VI, V2 must be opened simultaneously from the yellow and blue tanks. Now, if the following error occurs that one of the valves VI, V2 can not be properly opened or closed, V3, V4, first all open inlet valves VI, V2 must be closed again, and then open the mixing tank G, the valve V4 in the direction of disposal R. to dispose of the collected liquid.
- the control of the servers UA-Sl, UA-S2 and UA-S3 is performed by the client UA-C.
- FIGS. 1-10 Exemplary communication processes between client UA-C and servers UA-Sl, UA-S2, UA-S3 according to the invention are now shown in FIGS.
- Figure 2 shows a communication in which the execution of the operations is triggered by a trigger.
- a client UA-C sends a first operation "open valve blue",
- the server UA-S first formally checks the validity of the operation. In the event of an error, a corresponding message is sent to the client. Otherwise, the operation is stored in the server.
- Client UA-C sends a second operation "Open Valve Yellow", 02 (OPEN_V2, T) to server UA-S at the same timeout point T.
- the validity of the operation 02 is formally checked again after reception of the second operation 02 by the server. In the event of an error, a corresponding message is sent to the client. Otherwise, the operation is also stored in the server.
- the client UA-C If the client UA-C now wants to perform the two operations, it sends the trigger message TRIGGER (T) to the server UA-S.
- the server carries out the operations and sends a response RESULT (01, 02) to the client for confirmation back.
- FIG. 3 initially shows the same procedure:
- Figure 4 shows yet another embodiment.
- the server UA-S After receiving the first operation 01 (OPEN_Vl, T), the server UA-S optionally checks formally the validity of the operation and then simulates the requested operation.
- the client UA-C receives in response to the operation the result of this simulation as a preview, SIM_RESULT (Ol).
- SIM_RESULT The actual result of the operation can not be delivered to the client later because it has already received the response to the request.
- the server UA-S After receiving the second operation 02 (OPEN_V2, T), the server UA-S formally checks the validity of the operation and "simulates" the operation 02.
- the client UA-C receives in response to the operation the result of this simulation as a preview, SIM_RESULT (FIG. 02) It is no longer possible to deliver the actual result of the operation to the client UA-C since it has already received the response to the request.
- the client UA-C may abort the overall operation by elapsing the timeout period.
- the execution time can be set by the client UA-C either by the timeout time or by a time T delivered with the trigger.
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