Unified Modeling of Complex Real-Time Control Systems

TL;DR

This paper proposes an extension to UML-RT to enable unified modeling of complex real-time control systems, covering requirements, design, simulation, and code generation, thereby improving design efficiency and consistency.

Contribution

It introduces a novel UML-RT extension for modeling time-continuous subsystems in real-time control systems, addressing existing limitations.

Findings

Unified modeling from requirements to code generation.

Enhanced support for time-continuous subsystems.

Improved design process for complex control systems.

Abstract

Complex real-time control system is a software dense and algorithms dense system, which needs modern software engineering techniques to design. UML is an object-oriented industrial standard modeling language, used more and more in real-time domain. This paper first analyses the advantages and problems of using UML for real-time control systems design. Then, it proposes an extension of UML-RT to support time-continuous subsystems modeling. So we can unify modeling of complex real-time control systems on UML-RT platform, from requirement analysis, model design, simulation, until generation code.