Uma Arquitetura Altamente Disponível Aplicada a Sistemas de Controle Embutidos de Tempo Real

  • Cesar Ossamu Ida UFRGS
  • Taisy Silva Weber UFRGS

Abstract


An architecture based on controller redundancy for increased embedded real-time systems safety and availability is presented. Two COTS controllers process the same inputs and the computed data is compared as a means to detect errors. When an error is detected, a diagnosis routine tries to identify its locality. This may take some control cycles, which violates the real-time property of the controlled application; however, this situation is allowed to happen for the embedded systems we consider as long as it does not cause the failure of the controlled process.

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Published
2003-05-19
IDA, Cesar Ossamu; WEBER, Taisy Silva. Uma Arquitetura Altamente Disponível Aplicada a Sistemas de Controle Embutidos de Tempo Real. In: FAULT TOLERANCE WORKSHOP (WTF), 4. , 2003, Natal/RN. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2003 . p. 79-86. ISSN 2595-2684. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wtf.2003.23393.