30, May, 2007
Porto, Portugal

The Time-Triggered Architecture (TTA) encompasses a set of concepts and principles that support the design of highly dependable hard real-time systems. However, several properties of the TTA, like the global time, the two-level design approach, and the predictable communication are also advantageous for the design of time-triggered smart transducer networks. While current applications have been implemented on wired media so far, this talk gives also an overview on wireless time-triggered systems and introduces to sensor fusion methods that benefit from the TTA's timing behavior.

Biosketch:
Wilfried Elmenreich, born 1973, studied at the Engineering School for Electrotechnics and Control in Weiz, Styria and graduated at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria. He received a Master's degree in computer science in 1998 and a doctoral degree in technical sciences in 2002. His doctoral thesis addressed the sensor fusion problem in time-triggered systems and was supervised by Prof. Hermann Kopetz. In cooperation with his colleagues, Wilfried Elmenreich has contributed significantly to the development of the TTP/A fieldbus protocol and the standardization of the OMG Smart Transducer Interface Standard. In the last five years, Wilfried Elmenreich has published 40 papers in the field of embedded real-time systems.

Time: 10h00
Duration: approximately 40 minutes
Location: Room E4 in the IPP-HURRAY Heads-On-Lab building.

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