ASRock Industrial has launched AiUAC Copilot, an AI-assisted engineering tool for IEC 61499 control application development. The software is designed to convert structured control specifications into deployable logic artifacts, reducing the amount of manual work needed to build function block applications for distributed automation systems.
IEC 61499 is widely used in open, event-driven control architectures, particularly where applications are distributed across multiple devices or subsystems. In practice, however, building those applications still requires detailed configuration work and specialist knowledge of control logic, communications, and runtime behaviour. AiUAC Copilot is intended to shorten that engineering process by generating IEC 61499-compliant logic directly from higher-level control definitions.
ASRock says the software supports application development across industrial I/O, motion control, fieldbus communication, and robotic subsystems within a single authoring workflow. By reducing exposure to low-level protocol and platform-specific implementation work, the company aims to make IEC 61499 development faster and more accessible to engineering teams working on software-defined automation.
The software has been validated on ASRock Industrial’s iEP-5000G industrial IoT controller, which the company is using as a reference platform for development, testing, and demonstration. The controller combines industrial I/O support with edge computing capability for distributed control workloads, although ASRock says AiUAC Copilot is not limited to a single hardware platform.
AiUAC Copilot is designed to work alongside AiUAC, ASRock Industrial’s IEC 61499-compliant control runtime. In that arrangement, AiUAC provides the execution environment for distributed control applications, while AiUAC Copilot focuses on creating the control logic more efficiently. Together, the two products cover both engineering and runtime layers of IEC 61499 deployment.
More information is available on ASRock Industrial’s AiUAC Copilot page.
