Time-triggered smart transducer networks

TL;DR

This paper explores the use of a time-triggered communication approach for smart transducer networks, emphasizing real-time performance and supporting features like diagnostics and maintenance through specialized interfaces.

Contribution

It introduces a time-triggered interface design for smart transducers that maintains deterministic communication while enabling monitoring and maintenance features.

Findings

Effective real-time communication in smart transducer networks

Support for diagnostics and maintenance without disrupting timing guarantees

Successful case study demonstrating practical applicability

Abstract

The time-triggered approach is a well-suited approach for building distributed hard real-time systems. Since many applications of transducer networks have real-time requirements, a time-triggered communication interface for smart transducers is desirable, however such a time-triggered interface must still support features for monitoring, maintenance, plug-and-play, etc. The approach of the OMG Smart Transducer Interface consists of clusters of time-triggered smart transducer nodes that contain special interfaces supporting configuration, diagnostics, and maintenance without affecting the deterministic real-time communication. This paper discusses the applicability of the time-triggered approach for smart transducer networks and presents a case study application of a time-triggered smart transducer network.