US 12,284,083 B2
Method and system for automatic generation of a specification for an IT topology of a control system
Andreas Burger, Weingarten (DE); Heiko Koziolek, Karlsruhe (DE); Pablo Rodriguez, Ilvesheim (DE); and Rhaban Hark, Weiterstadt (DE)
Assigned to ABB Schweiz AG, Baden (CH)
Filed by ABB Schweiz AG, Baden (CH)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/474,668.
Claims priority of application No. 22198441 (EP), filed on Sep. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0106715 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 41/12 (2022.01); H04L 41/0823 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/12 (2013.01) [H04L 41/0823 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automatic generation of a specification for an information technology (IT) topology of a control system, the method comprising:
generating specification data of the IT topology by extracting the specification data, using natural language processing, from machine-readable data that defines production process requirements and an extracted system structure that comprises mapping controllers, actuators, or sensors of the IT topology;
creating a system structure from the machine-readable data;
optimizing the generated specification data of the IT topology by utilization of pre-defined rules and generating abstract aggregated IT topology data based on the optimized specification data, wherein the predefined rules are used to group multiple control applications to a same executing node if a name of the actuators and instruments share a common prefix; and
instantiating and mapping the abstract aggregated IT topology data to specific technology instance data.