Distributed Embedded Control Systems
Improving Dependability with Coherent Design
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Beschreibung
Very often, practical design of embedded systems lacks consistency resulting in computer control systems that do not provide the performance they should. Most notably they lack dependability, a key property now that programmed electronic devices are so pervasive, even in extremely safety-critical applications.
Distributed Embedded Control Systems handles the domains encountered when designing a distributed embedded computer control system as an integrated whole. First to be discussed are some basic issues about real-time systems and their properties, specifically safety. Then, system and hardware architectures are dealt with: areas like scheduling, asymmetrical distributed multiprocessor architectures, time-triggered communications, middleware, fault-tolerant peripherals, etc. Next, programming issues, embodying desired properties, basic language subsets, object orientation and language support for hardware and software specifications and co-design are elaborated and finally, the prototype implementation of a distributed embedded control system is given as a detailed example.
Different audiences will find much of interest in this work: industrial professionals are given guidelines for the design of embedded hardware and software with fault tolerance that will help them to decide which methods, tools and solutions they should employ and to which features they should pay attention. Academics have a new source of solutions and further questions to stimulate research and it will also be informative for graduate students in electrical, control and computer engineering.
Teaches the engineer which approaches and technologies are best used for reliable and flexible implementation of distributed embedded control Emphasis on reliability to deal with the increasing use of distributed control in safety-critical systems Encourages verification of function and real-time performance by simple ex tempore testing rather than rigid planned procedures Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Matjaž Colnaric
Themen in »Distributed Embedded Control Systems«
Communications Networks Control Control Applications Control Engineering Control Systems Distributed Systems Embedded Systems Fault Tolerance Fault-tolerant Control Real-time Architectures architecture communication peripheral
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From the reviews:
“This book is written for designers and engineers working with embedded systems in an industrial environment as well as for researchers interested in distributed control systems, real-time architectures, programming languages, and fault tolerance.” (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, February, 2010)
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