Abstract: Reconfigurable control system design is a key component for enabling autonomous on-orbit assembly. Current research on reconfigurable control systems focuses on adapting to failures. However, for assembly scenarios, the reconfiguration is necessitated by changing mass and stiffness properties. This paper provides a brief description of existing reconfigurable control system technology...

This paper presents a new method to solve the network reconfiguration problem. The uncertainty of system loads on different feeders which vary from time to time makes the distribution system operation and its control more complex. For a fixed network configuration power loss is not minimum in a distributed network. Hence, there is a necessity for reconfiguration of the network. Network reconfig...

The chapter deals with reconfigurable embedded control systems following component-based technologies and/or Architecture Description Languages used today in industry. The author defines Control Components as software units to support control tasks of the system which is assumed to be a network of components with precedence constraints. The author defines an agent-based architecture to handle a...

The paper presents a hierarchical architecture for fault tolerant control of mechatronic systems. In the architecture, both the diagnosis and the reconfiguration are completely decentralized according to the structure of the control system. In each module of the control system, diagnosis and reconfiguration are included and use only locally available signals. Therefore, no extra dependencies ar...

the advent of cybertechnologies has led to radical paradigm shifts in our social, economic, cultural, and psychological conceptualizations. the paper investigates the advent of cyborgs, indeed our transformation into cyborgs, and the impact of this transformation upon identities and face management, which has an important social value since the late modernism. cyborg is a designation for the in...

The ability to inhibit distracting stimuli from interfering with goal-directed behavior is crucial for success in most spheres of life. Despite an abundance of studies examining regional brain activation, knowledge of the brain networks involved in inhibitory control remains quite limited. To address this critical gap, we applied graph theory tools to functional magnetic resonance imaging data ...

the task of building adaptive system software relies on wizardry. Feedback controls for such software systems are written in an ad-hoc manner and are often brittle. As a result, it is difficult to move an existing control, such as TCP flow control [1], to a new domain such as admission control for CPU scheduling. In addition , existing controls are built with implicit assumptions about the syst...

Run-time reconfigurable approaches for FPGAs are gaining interest as they enlarge the design space for system implementation by sequential execution of temporally exclusive system parts on one or several FPGA resources. In [7], we introduced a novel methodology and a design tool for communication synthesis in reconfigurable embedded systems. In [5], this work was extended by a hierarchical reco...

This paper describes a method of function replacement in hard real-time systems implemented with FPGAs using dynamic partial reconfiguration. Prefetching of functions is used to avoid violations of real time conditions in cases where reconfiguration time is large compared to sampling time. A finite state machine determined from the specification of the real-time system is used to control reconf...