Advanced software development for real-time control systems

Speaker: Prof. Valdis Berzins (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA)

When: 10:00, Friday, 9 September 2005

Venue: 78-420

This talk explores current trends and challenges of software development for real-time control systems, and considers applications to elevator control systems.

We describe some state-of-the-art methods for software development, including model-based software development, hardware and software co-design, component based development, agile development, and documentation driven development. Their pros and cons and the relationships between them will be discussed, along with some important issues in development of real-time control software, such as management of operating resources, modeling timing constraints, real-time architectures, etc. We examine some issues in the context of elevator control applications, such as high dependability requirements (including safety, reliability, robustness, etc.), interrupt and exception handling, system performance and cost.

Hospitality: Ian Hayes

Contact: Phil Cook (SSE seminar co-ordinator) (philc@itee.uq.edu.au)

SSE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~sse/Seminars.html