02012nas a2200217   4500008004100000245007400041210006900115300001200184490000700196520134900203653002101552653001301573100001701586700001501603700001201618700001401630700001901644700001501663700001201678856010401690       2007                        eng d00aA component-based approach to the design of networked control systems0 acomponentbased approach to the design of networked control syste  a261-2790 v133 a<p>Component-based techniques revolve around composable, reusable software objects that shield the application level software from the details of the hardware and lowlevel software implementation and vice versa. Components provide many benefits that have led to their wide adoption in software and middleware developed for embedded systems: They are well-defined entities that can be replaced without affecting the rest of the systems, they can be developed and tested separately and integrated later, and they are reusable. Clearly such features are important for the design of large-scale complex systems more generally, beyond software architectures. We propose the use of a component approach to address embedded control problems. We outline a general componentbased framework to embedded control and show how it can be instantiated in specific problems that arise in the control over/of sensor networks. Building on the middleware component framework developed under the European project RUNES, we develop a number of control-oriented components necessary for the implementation of control applications and design their integration. The paper provides the overview of the approach, discusses a real life application where the approach has been tested and outlines a number of specific control problems that arise in this application.</p>
10aEmbedded Control10aRobotics1 aArzén, K -E1 aBicchi, A.1 aDini, G1 aHailes, S1 aJohansson, K H1 aLygeros, J1 aTzes, A  uhttp://118699.obes.asia/publications/component-based-approach-design-networked-control-systems.html