A Human Interface Toolkit for Developing Operation Support System of Complex Industrial Systems with IVI-COM Technology

A human interface toolkit is proposed for helping the user to develop operation support system of complex industrial system such as Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). With a friendly graphical interface, this integrated tool includes a database, a procedure editor and a procedure executor. A three layer hierarchy is adopted to express the complexity of operation procedure, which includes mission, process and node. There are 10 kinds of node: entrance, exit, hint, manual input, detector, actuator, data treatment, branch, judgement and plug-in. The operation support system will sense and actuate the actual industrial systems with the interface based on IVI-COM (Interchangeable Virtual Instrumentation-Component Object Model) technology. A prototype system of this human interface toolkit has been developed is applied to develop a simple operation support system for a simulated NPP.