Gérard Nzebop Ndenoka ; Maurice Tchuenté ; Emmanuel Simeu - Language and semantics of expressions for Grafcet model synthesis in a MDE environment

arima:6452 - Revue Africaine de Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées, November 22, 2021, Volume 33 - Special issue CRI 2019 - 2020-21 - https://doi.org/10.46298/arima.6452
Language and semantics of expressions for Grafcet model synthesis in a MDE environmentArticle

Authors: Gérard NZEBOP NDENOKA ; Maurice Tchuenté 1; Emmanuel Simeu 2

  • 1 Laboratoire International de Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées
  • 2 Reliable RF and Mixed-signal Systems

The GRAphe Fonctionnel de Commande Étapes Transitions (GRAFCET) is a powerful graphical modeling language for the pecification of controllers in discrete event systems.It uses expressions to express the conditions of transitions and conditional actions as well as the logical and arithmetic expressions assigned to stored actions. However, several research works has focused on the transformation of Grafcet specifications (including expressions) into control code for embedded systems. To make it easier to edit valid Grafcet models and generate code, it is necessary to propose a formalization of the Grafcet expression language permitting to validate its constructs and provide an appropriate semantics. For this, we propose a context-free grammar that generates the whole set of Grafcet expressions, by extending the usual grammars of logical and arithmetic expressions. We also propose a metamodel and an associated semantics of Grafcet expressions to facilitate the implementation of the Grafcet language. A parser of the expressions Grafcet emph G7Expr is then obtained thanks to the generator of parsers ANTLR, while the metamodel is implemented in the Eclipse EMF Model Driven Engineering (MDE) environment. The combination of the two tools makes it possible to analyze and automatically build Grafcet expressions when editing and synthesizing Grafcet models.


Volume: Volume 33 - Special issue CRI 2019 - 2020-21
Published on: November 22, 2021
Accepted on: October 27, 2021
Submitted on: May 6, 2020
Keywords: expressions Grafcet,grammaire hors-contexte,analyseur syntaxique,Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles,métamodèle,vérification de modèle,sémantique des expressions,PACS 85.42,[INFO.INFO-CL]Computer Science [cs]/Computation and Language [cs.CL],[INFO.INFO-AU]Computer Science [cs]/Automatic Control Engineering

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