Biologically inspired fault-tolerant architectures for real-time control applications

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 673-678

  Ortega, Cesar ^a   Tyrrell, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bio control; Control applications; Embryonics; Fault tolerant systems; Real time

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY;

EMBRYONICS; REAL TIME CONTROL;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032654966     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(98)00206-8     Document Type: Article

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