Analyzing the Impact of Data Errors in Safety-Critical Control Systems

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2623-2633

  Askerdal, Örjan ^a   Gäfvert, Magnus ^b   Hiller, Martin ^c,d   Suri, Neeraj ^d  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c VOLVO AERO CORPORATION   (Sweden)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Control systems; Error analysis; Error modeling; Safety critical systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

BRAKING CONTROL; ERROR MODELING; SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0842305089     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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