[comp.lang.forth] Industrial robotics & Process control

ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) (09/20/90)

Category 6,  Topic 10
Message 30        Tue Sep 18, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 23:15 EDT
 
Re: rajuk@ee.umr.edu (Raju Khubchandani)

 > I would like to know if there are any documentary stories about
 > Forth's application for Industrial controls, such as to
 > open/close control valves and other actuators based on input data
 > from sensors, in real-time for process control.

FORTH, Inc. is now selling what they call the "Process Event Language" that
does precisely what you are talking about.  To quote from our sales
literature:

"The Process Event Language is a fast, real-time, event-driven, high- level
control language suitable for virtually any process control application, no
matter how simple or complex.  This flexible, extensible language uses
advanced object-oriented programming techniques, allowing process engineers to
autimate an entire production line in only a few weeks."

Presently, we have the system running on a 20Mhz 68020 for one of our
customers and they seem very pleased with its capabilities.  If you are
interested, give Mark Carson a call at (213) 372-8493 and he will be glad to
send you a whole bunch of literature on it.  Mention that you are doing
research for your Master's degree and I'm sure he'd be willing to send you as
much literature as we have on it.

Also, Dean Sanderson gave a paper at the Rochester Forth Conference a couple
years back on the same technology.  I would suggest looking through as many
conference proceedings as you can get your hands on. They will be the best
source of information about what people have been doing.

DaR
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