Design of dynamically reconfigurable real-time software using port-based objects

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 759-776

  Stewart, David B ^a,b   Volpe, Richard A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Component based design; Digital control systems; Dynamic reconfiguration; Evolutionary design; Object based design; Port automaton theory; Real time operating system; Reusable software; Robotics; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000474691     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.637390     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. B. Abbott et al. Model-Based Software Synthesis IEEE Software vol. 10 no. 3 pp. 42-52 May 1993.
2. J.M. Adan and M.F. Magalhaes Developing Reconfigurable Distributed Hard Real-Time Control Systems in STER Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control Proc. IFAC Workshop pp. 147-152 Oxford: Pergamon Press Sept. 1991.
3. J.S. Albus H.G. McCain and R. Lumia NASA/NBS Standard Reference Model for Telerobot Control System Architecture (NASREM) Technical Note 1235 Nat'l Inst. of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg Md. Apr. 1989.
4. B.W. Beach Connecting Software Components with Declarative Glue Proc. Int'l Conf. Software Eng. pp. 11-15 Melbourne Australia IEEE Press 1992.
5. T.E. Bihari and P. Gopinath Object-Oriented Real-Time Systems: Concepts and Examples Computer vol. 25 no. 12 pp. 25-32 Dec. 1992.
6. B.A. Blake and P. Jalics An Assessment of Object-Oriented Methods and C++ J. Object-Oriented Programming vol. 9 no. 1 pp. 42-48 Mar.-Apr. 1996.
7. R.C. Dorf Modern Control Systems third edition. London: Addison-Wesley 1980.
8. M.W. Gertz D.B. Stewart and P.K. Khosla A Human Machine Interface for Distributed Virtual Laboratories IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine vol. 1 no. 1 pp. 5-13 Dec. 1994.
9. IV3230 VMEbus Single Board Computer and Multiprocessing Engine User's Manual Computer Systems Division Ironies Inc. Ithaca New York 1991.
10. A. Kalavade System-Level Codesign of Mixed Hardware-Software Systems doctoral dissertation Univ. of California Berkeley 1995.
11. L. Kelmar and P.K. Khosla Automatic Generation of Forward and Inverse Kinematics for a Reconfigurable Modular Manipulator System J. Robotics Systems vol. 7 no. 4 pp. 599-619 Aug. 1990.
12. D. Kinny M. Georgeff and A. Rao A Methodology and Modeling Technique for Systems of BDI Agents: Agents Breaking Away Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence LNAI 1038. Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1996.
13. D.A. Lamb IDL: Sharing Intermediate Representations ACM Trans. on Programming Languages and Systems vol. 9 no. 3 pp. 297-318 July 1987.
14. J. Lang A Distributed and Time-Bounded Exception Handling Mechanism for Dynamically Reconfigurable Real-Time Software masters thesis Dept. Electrical Engineering Univ. of Maryland College Park 1997.
15. C.L. Liu and J.W. Layland Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard Real Time Environment J. ACM vol. 20 no. 1 pp. 44-61 Jan. 1973.
16. D.M. Lyons and M.A. Arbib A Formal Model of Computation for Sensory-Based Robotics IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation vol. 5 no. 3 pp. 280-293 June 1989.
17. J. Magee N. Dulay and J. Kramer Structuring Parallel and Distributed Programs IEE Software Eng. J. vol. 8 no. 2 pp. 73-82 Mar. 1993.
18. J. Magee et al. Configuring Object-Based Distributed Programs in REX IEE Software Eng. J. vol. 8 no. 2 pp. 139-149 Mar. 1992.
19. J. Magee J. Kramer and M. Sloman Constructing Distributed Systems in Conic IEEE Trans Software Eng. vol. 15 no. 6 pp. 663-675 1989.
20. L.D. Molesky C. Shen and G. Zlokapa Predictable Synchronization Mechanisms for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems The J. Real-Time Systems vol. 2 no. 3 pp. 163-180 Sept. 1990.
21. D.L. Parnas P.C. Clements and D.M. Weiss The Modular Structure of Complex Systems IEEE Trans. Software Eng. vol. 11 no. 3 pp. 259-266 Mar. 1985.
22. J. Purtilo The Polylith Software Bus ACM Trans. Programming Languages and Systems vol. 16 no. 1 pp. 151-174 Jan. 1994
23. J.M. Purtilo and J.M. Atlee Module Reuse by Interface Adaptation Software: Practice and Experience vol. 21 no. 6 pp. 539-556 June 1991.
24. R. Rajkumar Real-Time Synchronization Protocols for Shared Memory Multiprocessors Proc. 10th Int'l Conf. Distributed Computing Systems pp. 116-123 Paris 1990.
25. L. Sha R. Rajkumar and J.P. Lehoczky Priority Inheritance Protocols: An Approach to Real-Time Synchronization IEEE Trans. on Computers vol. 39 no. 9 Sept. 1990.
26. S. Ritz M. Pankert and H. Meyr High Level Software Synthesis for Signal Processing Systems Proc. Int'l Conf. Application Specific Array Processors Berkeley Calif. pp. 4-7 1992.
27. S.R. Schach Software Eng. second edition. Asken Associates 1993.
28. D.E. Schmitz et al. CHIMERA: A Real-Time Programming Environment for Manipulator Control IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation Phoenix Ariz. pp. 846-852 1989.
29. D.E. Schmitz P.K. Khosla and T. Kanade The CMU Reconfigurable Modular Manipulator System Proc. Int'l Symp. and Exposition on Robots (designated 19th ISIR) Sydney Australia pp. 473-488 1988.
30. B. Selic G. Gullekson and P. Ward Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling. New York: John Wiley & Sons 1994.
31. T.E. Smith and D.E. Setliff Towards an Automatic Synthesis System for Real-time Software Proc. Real-Time Systems Symp. San Antonio Texas pp. 34-42 1991.
32. M. Steenstrup M.A. Arbib and E.G. Manes Port Automata and the Algebra of Concurrent Processes J. Computer and System Sciences vol. 27 no. 1 pp. 29-50 Aug. 1983.
33. W.P. Stevens G.J. Myers and L.L. Constantine Structured Design IBM Systems J. vol. 13 no. 2 pp. 115-139 1974.
34. D.B. Stewart and G. Arora Dynamically Reconfigurable Embedded Systems-Does it Make Sense? Proc. Real Time Application Workshop Montreal Oct. 1996.
35. D.B. Stewart and P.K. Khosla Policy-Independent RTOS Mechanisms for Timing Error Delection Handling and Monitoring Proc. IEEE High Assurance Systems Eng. Workshop Niagara Ont. Canada Oct. 1996.
36. D.B. Stewart and P.K. Khosla Mechanisms for Detecting and Handling Timing Errors Comm. ACM vol. 40 no. 1 pp. 87-94 Jan. 1997.
37. D.B. Stewart D.E. Schmitz and P.K. Khosla The Chimera II Real-Time Operating System for Advanced Sensor-based Control Applications IEEE Trans. Systems Man and Cybernetics vol. 22 no. 6 pp. 1282-1295 Nov./Dec. 1992.
38. D.B. Stewart and P.K. Khosla Chimera 3.1: The Real-Time Operating System for Reconfigurable Sensor-Based Control Systems program documentation Advanced Manipulators Laboratory The Robotics Inst. and Dept. Eleclrical and Computer Eng. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Pittsburgh http://www.ee.umd.edu/serts/ bib/manuals/Chimera.html.
39. D.B. Stewart Real-Time Software Design and Analysis of Reconfigurable Multi-Sensor Based Systems doctoral dissertation Carnegie Mellon Univ. Dept. Electrical and Computer Eng. Pittsburgh 1994 http://www.ee.umd.edu/serts/bib/thesis/dstewart.html.
40. D.B. Stewart D.E. Schmitz and P.K. Khosla CHIMERA II: A Real-Time Multiprocessing Environment for Sensor-Based Robot Control Proc. IEEE Int'l Symp. Intelligent Control Albany N.Y. pp. 265-271 Sept. 1989.
41. VBT-325 The VME+ Analyzer System User's Manual VMETRO Inc. Houston 1995.
42. P. Wegner Dimensions of Object-Oriented Programming Computer vol. 25 no. 10 pp. 12-20 Oct. 1992.
43. P. Wegner Concepts and Paradigms of Object-Oriented Programming OOPS Messenger vol. 1 no. 1 pp. 7-84 Aug. 1990.