control of a gas-turbine engine requires management of continuous and discrete (state-event) behaviour. A design environment- the Development Framework, is used to define both the continuous and discrete aspects of a ...
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control of a gas-turbine engine requires management of continuous and discrete (state-event) behaviour. A design environment- the Development Framework, is used to define both the continuous and discrete aspects of a turbine engine controller. The approach uses purpose-built software translation tools to capture the system's specification from commercial simulation tools. A unified design model based on a data flow notation, comprising both continuous and state-event behaviour is automatically generated. Specification and design models of selected gas-turbine engine controller subsystems are presented. The complexity of the application suggests that the approach can be used for industrial scale projects.
Embedded systems are computer-based systems which must respond to external stimuli within time scales determined by the external environment. Such systems are required to achieve ever more demanding behavioural. perfo...
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Embedded systems are computer-based systems which must respond to external stimuli within time scales determined by the external environment. Such systems are required to achieve ever more demanding behavioural. performance and safety requirements. Embedded systems are found in applications such as primary flight control, gas-turbine engine control and railway traffic management Often complex embedded systems are distributed, typically to achieve demanding performance or dependability requirements, and must operate within hard real-time constraints. Considerable effort is required to select optimal design solutions and ensure adherence to specified requirements. In embedded systems safety, reliability and response-times are considered as strict constraints on the system design. Achievement of these constraints requires meticulous analysis, typically through the use of specialist modelling and simulation techniques. Integration of knowledge and understanding obtained from disparate detailed models remains a considerable challenge. Ideally, a system which has both continuous dynamics and event-driven parts. would be modelled in one environment, using the most appropriate techniques for each part, and allowing the analysis of the whole system to be carried out simultaneously. The paper presents an integrated approach in order to translate automatically the information manipulated during the different phases of the design: specification. analysis, design and implementation.
In computer vision, texture plays an important role. In this work we propose five human perceptual texture features heuristically extracted. Since a modeling can not be obtained from these features, we use a discrimin...
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In this paper we present a new classification and image segmentation system based on the addition of a variational method to a classic clustering algorithm. This system constitutes an improvement respect traditional s...
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Hybrid control systems are a combination of real-time control law and discrete-state logic. This paper describes how a Development Framework for control systems software has been adapted so that it may also handle dis...
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Hybrid control systems are a combination of real-time control law and discrete-state logic. This paper describes how a Development Framework for control systems software has been adapted so that it may also handle discrete events such as mode switching. The Framework provides a highly automated path from a control engineering specification to a distributed system implementation. Simulink, an extension to Matlab, is used to specify control laws, and a statecharts tool, Statemate, is used to specify and model discrete-state components. The design phase of the Development Framework supports the integration of the two sets of specification. An inverted pendulum control system is introduced as a simple example of a hybrid system implemented using the Framework. The translation of statecharts to dataflow notations is described for the example system. General translation rules are also presented.
Formal verification of safety and timing properties of engineering systems is only meaningful if based on models which are systematically derived. In this paper we report on our experience using switched bond graphs f...
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By a hybrid system we mean a discrete controller in interaction with a physical environment. This paper discusses methodologies for incorporating physically grounded models in representations of hybrid systems. To thi...
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A simple algorithm for establishing the presence of points common to some singularity (hyper)surfaces associated to covariance matrices is developed. It allows, on the basis of the new algebraic and geometric properti...
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A simple algorithm for establishing the presence of points common to some singularity (hyper)surfaces associated to covariance matrices is developed. It allows, on the basis of the new algebraic and geometric properties recently given by Guidorzi (1994), the computation of the maximal number of linear relations that can be associated to a given set of data.
In this paper, a combined method of change detection and failure decision is proposed for the system under the adaptive control based on the self-tuning regulator. The controlled system is assumed encounter unexpected...
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In this paper, a combined method of change detection and failure decision is proposed for the system under the adaptive control based on the self-tuning regulator. The controlled system is assumed encounter unexpected parameter changes, which may be caused by a failure or a normal operation. Such a system change can effectively be detected by using Fullback Discrimination Information (KDI) as an index for model discrimination. In order to decide whether the detected system change is caused by a failure or not, a neural network approach to failure decision is introduced. Based on the knowledge about failure modes and system operations, the regulator parameter variations after the change detection are used as training data for the network learning. In this way an on-line monitoring scheme of adaptively controlled systems can be established. Simulation studies of a second-order damped oscillator have been earned out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.
The problem of correctness and timing of reactions of an agent in interaction with a physical environment is addressed. To this end, a method based on composition of separate models of the software and the environment...
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