msantos.bib

@inproceedings{SANTOS_ETFA_2006,
  author = {Santos, F. and Trovao, J. and Marques, A. and Pedreiras, P. and Ferreira, J. and Almeida, L. and Santos, M.},
  title = {A Modular Control Architecture for a Small Electric Vehicle},
  booktitle = {11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'2006) Proceedings},
  year = {2006},
  editor = {},
  volume = {},
  series = {},
  pages = {139-144},
  address = {Prague, Czech Republic},
  month = {September},
  organization = {},
  publisher = {},
  doi = {10.1109/ETFA.2006.355456},
  issn = {},
  isbn = {0-7803-9758-4},
  keywords = {CAN, FTT-CAN, accelerate-by-wire safety critical function, brake-by-wire safety critical functions, communication infrastructure, fault-tolerant modular control architecture, small electric vehicle, steer-by-wire safety critical function, x-by-wire subsystems},
  note = {},
  key = {},
  abstract = {This paper presents a fault-tolerant modular control architecture for an electrical vehicle (VEIL) equipped with x-by-wire sub-systems. The proposed architecture is based on COTS components and includes steer-by-wire, brake-by-wire and accelerate-by-wire safety critical functions. The communication infrastructure is based on the FTT-CAN protocol, which provides the joint scheduling of message and tasks, according to a holistic approach}
}

@inproceedings{FERREIRA_WTR_2005,
  author = {Ferreira, J. and Almeida, L. and Fonseca, J. A. and Pedreiras, P. and Santos, M.},
  title = {On the dependability and flexibility of CAN and CAN based protocols},
  booktitle = {VII Workshop de Tempo Real (WTR'2005) Proceedings},
  year = {2005},
  editor = {},
  volume = {},
  series = {},
  pages = {},
  address = {Fortaleza, Brazil},
  month = {May},
  organization = {},
  publisher = {},
  doi = {},
  issn = {},
  isbn = {},
  keywords = {CAN, FTT-CAN, FTT},
  note = {},
  key = {},
  abstract = {The traditional approaches to the design of distributed safety-critical systems, due to fault-tolerance reasons, have mostly considered static cyclic table-based traffic scheduling. However, there is a growing demand for operational flexibility and integration, mainly to improve efficiency in the use of system resources, with the network playing a central role to support such properties. This calls for dynamic on-line traffic scheduling techniques so that dynamic communication requirements are adequately supported. Nevertheless, using dynamic traffic management mechanisms raises additional problems, in terms of fault-tolerance, related with the weaker knowledge of the future system state caused by the higher level of operational flexibility. Such problems have been recently addressed in the scope of using Flexible Time-Triggered CAN (FTT-CAN) in safety-critical applications in order to benefit from the high operational flexibility of this protocol. The paper gathers and reviews the main mechanisms that were developed to provide dependability to the protocol, namely master replication and fail-silence enforcement}
}