Machines incorporating embedded systems display a trend towards increasing autonomy. In this position paper, we outline an approach for introducing autonomy in embedded system architectures. The approach involves the creation of an artificial consciousness within the machine. We propose that the artificial consciousness may be represented in the form of domain specific reference architectures. ...

Safety-critical systems have made extensive use of software for some time, and they have a very good overall safety record. The size and complexity of these systems is increasing, however, and while software development technology is advancing, it is unclear that the pace of that advancement is rapid enough to match the increase in complexity. This research proposes to develop the key aspects o...

Model-Integrated Computing is a proven technology for designing and implementing complex software systems. Making the designtime models available at run-time benefits the development of dynamic embedded systems. This paper describes a paradigm-independent, general infrastructure for the design and implementation of model-integrated embedded systems that is highly applicable to self-adaptive sys...

Object-oriented expand on the idea of using data structures like struct and union in order to organise logically connected data items. Instead of just associating values in logical groups, as done with structs, object-oriented programming also associates operations to these data item groups. The paradigm requires that all data items modelling the same object need to be categorised in the same c...

Practical Control's embedded software team have experience in large multiprocessor designs through to small single low power embedded software devices. We are ISO9001 certified and have rigorous quality procedures for software development, change control, defect tracking and software verification. We follow agile development practices and are experienced in project managing large and complex de...

Embedded systems (ES) are application-specific, dedicated computing devices characterized by an intensive interaction with their physical environment. They observe different physical quantities through their sensors, provide complex computation and react to the world via their actuators. Networked ESs may fusion their information (e.g. sensor information) and cooperate in the execution of a joi...

Securing Embedded Systems: From Analyses of Modern Automotive Systems to Enabling Dynamic Analysis

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Not long ago, it was thought that only software applications and general purpose digital systems i.e. computers were prone to various types of attacks against their security. The underlying hardware, hardware implementations of these software applications, embedded systems, and hardware devices were considered to be secure and out of reach of these attacks. However, during the previous few year...

a novel zinc oxide - agar nanocomposite was successfully synthesized using zinc chloride as a precursor. the nanocomposite was prepared using a domestic microwave oven. the prepared nanocomposites have been characterized by fourier transform infrared (ftir) spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction (xrd) analysis, scanning electron microscopy (sem) and uv- visible spectroscopy. the crystalline properties...