IEC 61499 has been in the focus of many international and national research projects, starting from the Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) in 1996-2004 and extending to the ongoing European projects.
Some of which are as follows:
1-SWARM
Integrated development and operations management framework for cyber-physical systems of systems under the paradigm of swarm intelligence
QU4LITY
Digital Reality in Zero Defect Manufacturing
DAEDALUS
Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS
ForZDM
Integrated Zero Defect Manufacturing Solution for High Value Adding Multi-stage Manufacturing systems
SYMBIOPTIMA
Human-mimetic approach to the integrated monitoring, management and optimization of a symbiotic cluster of smart production units
Student Projects
Performance in Distributed Automation Applications: Estimation and Improvement
Master’s Thesis project by Eero Väänänen.
Portability of IEC 61499 compliant software
Master thesis by Alexander Hopsu.
Testbeds
EnAS Demonstrator at Aalto University
The Aalto Factory of the Future is a facility for innovation, research and education and comprises a space shared by humans, robots and production stations.
AIC3 [ice cube] lab
The AIC3 lab is an experimental demonstrator of the Industrial Internet benefits for Industry 4.0.
Automation Technology Lab at U.Halle
One of the first IEC 61499 based test beds