CS 424, Fall 2017

Real-Time (and Cyber-physical) Systems

Advanced Embedded Computing

Schedule

Here is the course schedule. Homework will be posted on the class website and should be submitted in class on the day it is due (unless stated otherwise).

Part	Date	Lecture	Slides	HW	MP & Comments
	August 29^th	Introduction and logistics	Intro
	August 31^st	What is cyber-physical computing? Basic concepts and application examples (featuring reliability, timing, energy and people)	Intro continued
Reliability	September 5^th	System Reliability: Using Simplicity to Control Complexity	Reliability
	September 7^th	System Reliability: Well-formed Dependencies and Open Loop Safety	Reliability2
	September 12^th	Guest Speaker on System Reliability	Examples Project Ideas
	September 14^th	Project Examples		HW1 out
	September 19^th	Data Reliability: A Probabilistic Perspective	Probability Intro
	September 21^st	Data Reliability: Multi-sensor Data Fusion	Data Reliability	HW1 due, HW2 out
Time	September 26^th	Review Basic Real-time Concepts and Optimality Results	Real-time concepts
	September 28^th	Introduction to the Lab	Lab notes	HW2 due	Led by TA
	October 3^rd	Main Results in Periodic Task Scheduling	Periodic Tasks		Lab assignment #1 out
	October 5^th	Midterm Review	Review
	October 10^th	Midterm
Time	October 12^th	Real-time Synchronization and Priority Inheritance	Blocking
	October 17^th	Exact Schedulability Test	Exact		Lab assignment #1 due Lab assignment #2 out
	October 19^th	Aperiodic Tasks and Servers
	October 24^th	MP Design Discussion (Putting it All Together): Asimov Laws of Robotics, Timing, and other Challenges	Discussion	HW3 out	Led by TA
Energy	October 26^th	Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVS)	DVS
	October 31^st	Leakage, batching, startup costs, and other practical issues	Energy continued…	HW3 due HW4 out
	November 2^nd	Other energy trade-offs			Lab assignment #2 due.
	November 7^th	Midterm Review	Review	HW4 due
	November 9^th	Midterm			Lab assignment #3 out
Control	November 14^th	Feedback control	Control
	November 16^th	Feedback control
	November 21^st	Thanksgiving
	November 23^rd	Thanksgiving
Other	November 28^th	Advanced topics: CPS in Social Spaces	Green GPS		Lab assignment #3 due. Lab assignment #4 out.
	November 30^th	Advanced topics: CPS in Social Spaces
	December 5^th	Student led presentations
	December 7^th	Student led presentations			Lab assignment #4 due.
	December 12^th	Final review. Final out late night (Take home). Due Saturday, 16^th.	Review