This paper describes the development of a multi-robot system for Area Reduction in Humanitarian Demining. In spite of the specific requirements imposed to the work being carried ...
In many digital control applications, data acquisition and process control are time-critical actions, assumed to be instantaneous and strictly periodic. However, aspects related t...
This article covers research work about unmanned helicopters that is being developed by the Portuguese SME IntRoSys, S.A. in the context of a generic project targeting the develop...
The X-by-Wire systems in cars can only be accepted if they provide at least the same dependability than the traditional ones. In this paper we propose a new approach to evaluate t...
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...