US 11,669,075 B2
Automation device, computer program, computer-readable medium and method for automatically configuring an automation device
Harald Albrecht, Nuremberg (DE); Stephan Höme, Schwabach (DE); and Thomas Talanis, Heroldsbach (DE)
Assigned to SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/434,544
Filed by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/055492
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 27, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/200606, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19166203 (EP), filed on Mar. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0137605 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/41845 (2013.01) [G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G05B 19/41835 (2013.01); G05B 2219/23255 (2013.01); G05B 2219/25011 (2013.01); G05B 2219/25061 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automatically configuring an industrial automation device, the method comprising:
a) providing an automation device which is suitable for functioning as a node of a cluster and for executing at least one automation task;
b) monitoring, by a device management unit, whether an automation identifier is allocated to the automation device;
c) querying, by the device management unit, upon identifying such an allocation, a central cluster management unit to determine whether a description object already exists in a cluster state database associated with the cluster and containing description objects for nodes of the cluster, said description object storing the automation identifier allocated to the automation device;
d) considering the description object as a description object of the automation device in an event such a description object already exists for a node identifier allocated to the automation device; and
e) generating, by the device management unit, a description object in the cluster state database for the node identifier allocated to the automation device in the event that such a description object exists for a node identifier other than the description object allocated to the automation device and is declared as inactive and in the event that no such description object yet exists, said description object one of (i) storing the automation identifier allocated to the automation device, (ii) storing the automation identifier allocated to the automation device in a description object which already exists for a node identifier allocated to the automation device in the cluster state database and (iii) initiating the storage or the generation.