Process Control and Visualization Software


The following are possible process control and visualization software that might be adapted to work with the GCU. Advantages/disadvantages of each package or new software options should be added below.

 

Process Control/HMI

Proview - http://www.proview.se/

Scicos - http://www.scicos.org/

 

Modeling

OpenModelica [modeling language] - http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/pelab/modelica/OpenModelica.html

Ascend - http://ascend.cheme.cmu.edu/

 

Graphing

LiveGraph - http://www.live-graph.org/

kst - http://kst.kde.org (Linux/Windows, please report back if you get this working, looks powerful)

RRDTool - http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/index.en.html (needs script to upate database, writes graph to file, for e.g. web serving)

Veusz - http://home.gna.org/veusz/

GNUplot - http://www.gnuplot.info/

     - forum post on using GnuPlot for real time plotting: http://www.gekgasifier.com/forums/showthread.php?t=395

R - http://www.r-project.org (statistics package, graphing and data analysis)

Helpful R language reference: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Short-refcard.pdf