MPC HMI and OPCUA interface

[caxelrud]

Hi, I created a simple Julia prototype solution to connect this MPC to OPCUA and for a MPC HMI (using Pluto). The code is attached. Let me know if these are topics that you would like to include and develop here in this work. Pluto_MPC_2025_1.zip

[franckgaga]

Yes, a really cool project of @martinkosch!

It would be really nice to be the first conditional loading of code (Extensions) of ModelPredictiveControl.jl. The weak dep would be Open62541.jl, with loading of a new public small API to interface with Open62541.

Any ideas/thoughts on that topic @baggepinnen ?

[franckgaga]

and HMIs in Pluto is certainly a nice idea to explore @fonsp 😄

[baggepinnen]

I think it would almost certainly be better to keep this in a separate package rather than in a package extension here. The benefits of doing so are several

• They can be versioned separately, in particular, if the extension needs to make a breaking change that will not affect MPC.jl in any way at all.
• If the interest in maintaining the extension is suddenly lost, no harm done to the main MPC.jl. This happens frequently in the ecosystem despite maintainers best intentions, life takes a different path.
• CI of the main package is not slowed down by additionally testing these features, instead, they are only tested when a change in the separate package is made.

[franckgaga]

Hi, I created a simple Julia solution to connect this MPC to OPCUA and for a MPC HMI (using Pluto). The code is attached. Let me know if these are topics that you would like to include and develop here in this work. Pluto_MPC_2025_1.zip

@caxelrud do you have a projet environnement for Example_2025_1.jl (the Project.toml and the Manifest.toml files)?

[franckgaga]

Super interesting work @caxelrud, will try to look on it soon! I'm working on new collocation methods right now.