In two editions spanning more than a decade, The Electrical Engineering Handbook stands
as the definitive reference to the multidisciplinary field of electrical engineering. Our …

As software systems become more complex, the overall system structure--or software
architecture--becomes a central design problem. A system's architecture provides a model of …

Featuring contributions from major technology vendors, industry consortia, and government
and private research establishments, the Industrial Communication Technology Handbook …

This paper presents an overview of a newly developed Coupled Layer Architecture for
Robotic Autonomy (CLARAty), which is designed for improving the modularity of system …

This paper describes the current state, and the ongoing developments, of the hard real-time
motion control core, of the OROCOS project (Open Robot Control Software). This core is a …

A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an integral part of a real-time embedded system
(RTES). Most of the RTESs work on dynamic environments, and hence, the computational …

Timed multitasking for real-time embedded software Page 1 Software in real-time
embedded systems differs fundamentally from its desktop or Internet counterparts …

During the past few years there has been an dramatic upsurge in research and
development, implementations of new technologies, and deployments of actual solutions …

Networked embedded systems such as wireless sensor networks are usually designed to be
event-driven so that they are reactive and power efficient. Programming embedded systems …

Software is more and more becoming the major cost factor for embedded devices. Already
today, software accounts for more than 50 percent of the development costs of such a …