A cyber-physical system (CPS) is composed of tightly-integrated computation,
communication and physical elements. Medical devices, buildings, mobile devices, robots …

In this 25th year anniversary paper for the IEEE Real Time Systems Symposium, we review
the key results in real-time scheduling theory and the historical events that led to the …

To achieve good performance in systems with limited computer resources, the constraints of
the implementation platform must be taken into account at design time. To facilitate this …

This paper provides a survey of the role of feedback control in embedded real-time systems,
presented in the context of ARTIST2, the EU/IST network of excellence on design of …

We consider the problem of optimal static period assignment for multiple independent
control tasks executing on the same CPU. Previous works have assumed that the control …

This paper deals with the real-time implementation of feedback controllers. In particular, it
provides an analysis of the stability property of closed-loop systems that include a controller …

Real-time communication over Ethernet is becoming important in various application areas
of cyber-physical systems such as industrial automation and control, avionics, and …

The theories underlying control engineering and real-time systems engineering use
idealized models that mutually abstract from central aspects of the other discipline. Control …

The real-time implementation of periodic controllers requires solving a co-design problem, in
which the choice of the controller sampling period is a crucial element. Classic design …

Simulation-based programmable logic controller (PLC) code verification is a part of virtual
commissioning, where the control code is verified against a virtual prototype of an …