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Embedded Systems Design in Intelligent Industrial Automation Luca Ferrarini,1 Jose L. Martinez Lastra,2 Allan Martel,3 Antonio Valentini,4 and Valeriy Vyatkin5 1 Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano 20133, Italy2 Department of Production Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, 33101 Tampere, Finland3 O3neida Inc., 135 Dunbarton Court, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1K 4L64 O3neida Europe, 42 rue de l’Eglise, 1150 Brussels, Belgium5 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019,Auckland 1142, New Zealand Correspondence should be addressed to Valeriy Vyatkin, v.vyatkin@auckland.ac.nzReceived 16 January 2008; Accepted 16 January 2008Copyright ? 2008 Luca Ferrarini et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Industrial automation (IA) is the vast area of embedded computing devoted to industrial applications. Apart from many tailored solutions (numerical controllers, hardware controllers, etc.) the scene is dominated by programmable logic controll rs, widely known by the abbreviation PLC, which represent the most wide-spread class of embedded computing platforms. In the past, the progress in embedded technologies has determined qualitative breakthroughs in the performance of automation systems, their affordability and efficiency of thir design. Intelligent industrial automation (IIA) has appeared as a branch of research and development, answering the challenges of flexible and adaptive manufacturing, which require mass customization instead of mass production. It stipulates the use of information and communication technology (ICT) methods and tools for creating self-configurable or easily-reconfigurable control systems to automate manufacturing processes. The automation systems need to go beyond being a co