Real-Time Execution of Function Blocks for Internet of Things using the RTFM-kernel

• Function Blocks provides a means to model andprogram industrial control systems. The recently acclaimed IEC61499 standard allows such system models to be partitioned andexecuted in a distributed fashion. At device level, such models aretraditionally implemented onto programmable logic controllersthat underneath have an operating system and a softwarerun-time environment which implies high resource demands.However, there is a current trend to involve small embeddedsystems (so called Internet of Things devices) integrated into suchdistributed control systems. To this end, we seek to address theoutsets for real-time execution of Function Block based designsonto light-weight controllers (MCUs) with limited resources(memory and CPU). Furthermore, we propose a mapping ofthe Function Block execution semantics onto the RTFM-kernel,and discuss opportunities for off-line (design time) analysis withrespect to response time, overall schedulability and memoryrequirements.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Inbäddad systemteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Embedded Systems (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Embedded System

Inbyggda system

Dependable Communication and Computation Systems

Kommunikations- och beräkningssystem

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