CPS

Distributed cyber-physical architectures typically consist of multiple control applications mapped onto spatially distributed embedded systems (DES) with sensors and actuators that communicate via shared buses such as CAN and FlexRay. These Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) provide considerable flexibility in designing the network in terms of mapping control tasks to processors and determining various scheduling parameters and protocols. We refer to such systems as arbitrated networked control systems (ANCS) to emphasize the fact that the arbitration policy in the network also needs to be determined, and these policies together with the embedded system topology can be co-designed with the control system. By making use of real-time calculus, suitable information can be extracted about the delays due to communication and computation. This information in turn can be incorporated to result in a co-design of both the embedded systems network and the control system. One example of such a co-..

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