公开(公告)号：US20240053718A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-15

申请号：US17819671

申请日：2022-08-15

Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Taryl J Jasper ,  Charles M Rischar ,  Radek Bartman ,  Roman Vitek

IPC: G05B19/042

CPC classification number: G05B19/0428 ,  G05B2219/25057

Abstract: An industrial topology discovery system autonomously discovers and documents industrial automation system topologies using orchestrated discovery agents of various types. The topology discovery system can reside on a cloud platform or another high level network and deploy discovery agents on plant networks and devices within an industrial facility. These discovery agents can implement different strategies for discovering system information, and can include agents configured to monitor and report on communication traffic across respective types of networks, agents configured to probe respective device types for identity and configuration information, and other types of agents. Discovery services executed by the topology discovery system can collect device and network information obtained by the agents and use this information to document the topology of the automation system as well as to orchestrate the discovery behavior of the agents to extract further information about the system based on defined discovery rules.