Professor Wenbin Dai
Industrial internet and edge computing bring lots of new opportunities for traditional industrial automation systems. With massive computing, storage, and communication resources available on field devices, new no-code development methods must be investigated to handle those complex industrial edge applications. A system-level modeling language is needed to achieve efficient and reliable design and development of industrial edge applications. In this talk, we will discuss a new approach for automatic code generation for industrial edge applications based on the IEC 61499 standard. The next-generation industrial edge computing systems rely on a system-level modeling language based on IEC61499, deterministic network and embedded virtualization technologies. The new generation of industrial edge applications can be applied to discrete manufacturing, process control, motion control and other fields, and plays an important role in automatic code generation, autonomous optimization and self-management.
Wenbin(William) Dai, Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Electrical Information and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received the National Outstanding Youth Fund of NSFC in 2020 and is the Chief-Secretary of the Shanghai Association of Automation. He has been mainly engaged in the research of next-generation distributed industrial control software, industrial informatics, and industrial edge computing. He has cooperated with Industry to complete the world’s first cloud-based PLC experiment and developed the first web-based IEC 61499 IDE and Runtime for low-code and no-code development. As the first author, he published more than 70 papers in IEEE Transactions and conferences, published 2 monographs, and co-published 1 monograph. He is the PI of 3 projects of the NSFC and the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Key R&D Program, and won the title of Top Young Talent in Shanghai and Tang Zhongying Young Scholar. At the same time, he is an expert of the IEC TC65B Distributed Industrial Control Software Standards Committee, serves as the chair of the IEEE edge computing standard working group and as the chair for IEEE P2805 series standards for edge computing. He currently serves as the associate editor of IEEE T-II, Fundamental Research, IEEE-IES TC-II chair(2020-2023), and technical program chair of several IEEE-IES flagship conferences such as IEEE ICIT 2022, IEEE ISIE 2023, IEEE INDIN 2025.