JAVA INTERFACE TO REX CONTROL SYSTEM

REX control system is a hard real-time control system compatible with Matlab-Simulink. REX can be used for development of either industrial control systems or control systems of processes, plants and mechatronic models. REX is a suitable control system for building virtual and remote laboratories for automatic control teaching. This paper presents new communication interface to REX developed in Java programming language. The interface consists of several Java classes implementing the vast majority of REX communication protocol commands. Usage of the Java interface is demonstrated on two examples. The biggest advantage of Java interface to REX is its platform independence, i.e. it can be used in various web browsers and/or client operating systems.