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LCTRTS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Embedded Control Systems Development with Giotto
Giotto is a principled, tool-supported design methodology for implementing embedded control systems on platforms of possibly distributed sensors, actuators, CPUs, and networks. Gio...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Benjamin Horowitz, Christoph ...
HYBRID
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Hoare Logic for Single-Input Single-Output Continuous-Time Control Systems
This paper presents a Hoare-style logic for reasoning about the frequency response of control systems in the continuous-time domain. Two properties, the gain (amplitude) and phase ...
Richard J. Boulton, Ruth Hardy, Ursula Martin
FM
2003
Springer
107views Formal Methods» more  FM 2003»
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Verifying Emulation of Legacy Mission Computer Systems
Processor obsolescence is a serious maintenance problem for long-lived embedded control systems. A practical solution is to interpose an emulator program between the ‘legacy’ s...
Colin J. Fidge
ICRA
2003
IEEE
106views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Low-cost flight control system for a small autonomous helicopter
In this paper we describe a low-cost flight control system for a small (60 class) helicopter which is part of a larger project to develop an autonomous flying vehicle. Our appro...
Jonathan M. Roberts, Peter I. Corke, Gregg D. Busk...
DSN
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
On the Design of Robust Integrators for Fail-Bounded Control Systems
This paper describes the design and evaluation of a robust integrator for software-implemented control systems. The integrator is constructed as a generic component in the Simulin...
Jonny Vinter, Andréas Johansson, Peter Folk...
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards Dialogue Based Shared Control of Navigating Robots
Establishing a clean relationship between a robot’s spatial model and natural language components is a non-trivial task, but is key to designing verbally controlled, navigating s...
Robert J. Ross, Hui Shi, Tillman Vierhuff, Bernd K...
ICESS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Selecting a Scheduling Policy for Embedded Real-Time Monitor and Control Systems
An integrated solution to guarantee real-time requirements in embedded real-time monitor and control systems is presented in this paper. First l task model is abstracted from such ...
Qingxu Deng, Mingsong Lv, Ge Yu
EUROCAST
2005
Springer
87views Hardware» more  EUROCAST 2005»
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Soft Computing and Geometrical Control for Computer Aided Driving
After having designed control systems for real autonomous cars in an urban environment using straight lines as reference [2], we are now trying to build a fuzzy control system base...
Javier Ruiz, Teresa de Pedro, Carlos Gonzál...
ETFA
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Assessment of PROFIBUS networks using a fault injection framework
Industrial control systems architectures have been evolving to the decentralization of control tasks. This evolution associated with the time-critical nature of these tasks, incre...
J. A. Carvalho, A. S. Carvalho, Paulo Portugal
DSRT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Modeling Decentralized Real-Time Control by State Space Partition of Timed Automata
Timed automata provide useful state machine based representations for the validation and verification of realtime control systems. This paper introduces an algorithmic methodolog...
Thanikesavan Sivanthi, Srivas Chennu, Lothar Kreft