Plant Intelligent Automation and Digital Transformation: Volume III: Control Intelligence, Networking and Communication Details is an expansive four volume collection reviewing every major aspect of the intelligent automation and digital transformation of power, process, and manufacturing plants, including updates on specific control and automation systems pertinent to various power process plants through manufacturing and factory automation systems. Chapters review new and emergent control intelligence types, including those made possible by artificial intelligence, neural networks, remote control, and robotics.
Control system networking and interrelated communication technologies within, and external to, the network are comprehensively addressed. The volume also discusses network usage and system integration through field bus as well as at network levels.
1. General discussions on control Intelligence
2. Model based control systems
3. Adaptive gain and auto tuning features of Controllers
4. Fuzzy Control systems
5. Expert systems
6. Artificial intelligence and its applications
7. Discussions on Neural Network (NN)
8. Discussions on Control Networking and Communication
9. Network Components, devices and their usage
10. Ethernet network discussions
11. Wireless Network and Communication
12. Discussions on OPC and Network interface
13. Discussions on Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) & Time Sensitive Network (TSN)
14. Discussions on Various issues in Networking
15. Network Communication discussions
16. Fundamentals of field (and network) communications
17. Brain and Modbus communication
18. HART in Field communication
19. Foundation Fieldbus (FFB)
20. Profibus & Profinet
21. Actuator Sensor (AS) interface, World Factory Instrumentation Protocol (FIP) and FIPIO
22. Control Area Network (CAN), controlNet and DeviceNet
23. Device integration through fieldbus
24. Wireless in field communication
Swapan Basu is founder member & Chief Executive, Systems & Controls Kolkata India. Basu is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IEEE Instrumentation and measurement society. He brings over 40 years of international professional engineering experience in instrumentation and controls systems for subcritical, super critical thermal power plants including combined cycle projects, and other process plants. Since 1979, he has been leading teams of engineers in India, Jordan, Singapore, South Korea, Syria, and USA. He has a number of national and international technical papers to his credit. He has published two editions of Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Handbook, Plant Hazard Analysis and Safety Instrumentation Systems and Plant Flow Metering and Control Handbook
