Pisa, Italy, June 13-17, 2011

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Objectives:

The proposed course has two main objectives:

• Introducing the most important concepts and methodologies used to develop a real-time embedded system, including fundamentals of real-time scheduling, control and distributed systems;
• Showing how to apply these concepts in practice, using an embedded platform and a real-time operating system to developed simple control applications and make experience with wireless sensor networks.

The course is developed in five days, each dedicated to a specific topic:

• Basic principles of real-time computing and overview of the embedded platform.
• Lab practice on ERIKA Enterprise, RT-Druid and wireless communication (MIWI and uWireless).
• Real-time control: theory and practice on the embedded platform.
• Practice on real-time control and wireless sensor networks.
• Practice on Scicos-FLEX
• Project presentation and final exam.