Development and Prospects for Software‑Defined Intelligent Control Systems

doi:10.12068/j.issn.1005-3026.2025.20250079

Abstract

Abstract:

The current state of research on software-defined control systems was reviewed， and the role and development of control systems throughout the industrial revolutions were analyzed. The intelligent development direction for software-defined control systems was proposed. The case study of a software-defined end-edge-cloud collaborative PID（proportional-integral-derivative） tuning intelligence system was presented， which demonstrates that the tight conjoining and coordination between industrial artificial intelligence， industrial Internet， and other new-generation information technologies with software‐defined control systems has opened up a new way for the development of software-defined intelligent control systems. Finally， the principal research directions for software-defined intelligent control systems were pointed out by considering the challenges faced by software-defined control systems and those specific to their intelligent transformation.

Key words: virtual PLC（programable logic controller）, software?defined control system, AI-driven industrial control, software?defined intelligent system

CLC Number:

TP 273⁺.5

Tian-you CHAI, Rui ZHENG, Yao JIA, Xin-yu HUANG, Yan-jie SONG. Development and Prospects for Software‑Defined Intelligent Control Systems[J]. Journal of Northeastern University(Natural Science), 2025, 46(7): 1-10.

Figures/Tables 6

Fig.1 Role and development of control systems throughout industrial revolution

Fig.2 Structure diagram of industrial intelligent control system

Fig.3 Structure of software-defined intelligent control system

Fig.4 Research experiment platform for software-defined intelligent control system

Fig.5 Input and output comparison curves between proposed method and method in reference [40]

Fig.6 Comparison curve of control effect before and after self-optimization of PID parameters

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