A Distributed approach to the Remote Control and Programming Improvement

The remote control of industrial plants through networks is becoming very important nowadays but it involves several issues that can degrade the performance and usability of the remote plant. This paper presents a distributed architecture improving a remote programming system which allows users to control and to program a plant remotely. The control system is based on a client/server architecture with many user interfaces that control the plant. The remote programming language is a mix of Java and client/server protocol in order to simplify the developing and to avoid the protocol/language translation. In order to obtain more efficiency, the program is developed in the client side and it is sent and stored to the database server near the plant. This approach is successfully applied to a remote control system for a robot. Tests show that remote programming is very simple and useful for every one