A component-based approach to the design of networked control systems
Författare
Summary, in English
Component-based techniques revolve around composable, reusable software objects that shield the application level software from the details of the hardware and low-level software implementation and vice versa. Components provide many benefits that have led to their wide adoption it software and middleware developed for embedded systems: They are well-defined entities that can be replaced without affecting the rest of the systems, they can be developed and tested separately and integrated later, and they are reusable. Clearly such features are important for the design of large-scale complex systems more generally, beyond software architectures. We propose the use of a component approach to address embedded control problems. We outline a general coponent-based framework to embedded control aid show how it can be instantiated inspecific problems that arise in the control over/of sensor networks. Building on the middleware component framework developed under the European project RUNES, we develop a number of control-oriented components necessary for the implementation of control applications and design their integration. The paper provides the overview of the approach, discusses a real life application where the approach has been tested and outlines a number of specific control problems that arise in this application.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
261-279
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
European Journal of Control
Volym
13
Issue
2-3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Lavoisier
Ämne
- Control Engineering
Nyckelord
- wireless sensor networks
- wireless networks
- control over
- networked embedded systems
- component-based software
- mobile robotics
- networked
- control
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1435-5671