A Middleware for Control Applications

This paper proposes an original Object Oriented architecture and an associated framework to set-up easily and safely control software. To improve the design process of such a software several propositions are given: a multi-application support, a layered model, a semantic variable abstraction, a synchronising mechanism and a factoring process. The example illustrates how the architecture can be used to build complex applications. A two tanks plant is simulated and a supervised controlled application illustrates a multi-worlds system with concurrent control and supervision algorithms