Date Lecture Slides HW MP and Comments
  8/27 Introduction and Logistics Introduction    
8/29 What is cyber-physical computing? What is IoT? Concepts and application examples (featuring reliability, timing, energy and people) CPS: The Escalating Challenge    
Reliability 9/3 System Reliability: Using Simplicity to Control Complexity Reliability    
9/5 Guest Speaker on System Reliability Multicore Case Study   Led by TA
9/10 System Reliability: Well-formed Dependencies and Open Loop Safety Reliability Continued HW1 Out  
9/12 IoT and Data Reliability: A Probabilistic Perspective Data Reliability and Multisensor Fusion    
9/17 Multi-sensor Data Fusion HW1 Due, HW2 Out  
9/19  Project Examples in CPS, IoT, and Related Topics Ideas    
Time 9/24 Introduction to the Lab Lab HW2 Due Led by TA, Lab MP1 Out
9/26 Basic Real-time Concepts and Optimality Results Introduction to Real-Time    
10/1 Real-time Synchronization and Priority Inheritance Sync    
10/3 Exact Schedulability Analysis, Aperiodic Tasks Exact    
10/8 Midterm Review Review   Lab MP1 Due
10/10 Midterm   HW3 Out  
10/15 Multicore and Distributed Scheduling Multicore    
10/17 Autonomy and Real Time: A Vehicular Application Example Vehicle Autonomy HW3 Due Lab MP2 Out
10/22 MP Design Discussion (Putting it All Together): Asimov Laws of Robotics, Timing, and other Challenges MP Discussion   Led by TA
Energy 10/24 Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVS) DVS    
10/29 Leakage, Batching, Startup Costs, and Other Practical Issues Energy, continued HW4 Out  
10/31   Lab MP2 Due
11/5 Midterm Review Review HW4 Due Led by TA
Lab MP3 Out
  11/7 Midterm      
Control 11/12 MP Discussion MP3   Led by TA
11/14 Feedback Control Feedback    
11/19   Lab MP3 Due, Lab MP4 Out
11/21 MP Discussion + IoT Applications with Real-time Constraints MP4    
  11/26 Thanksgiving
11/28  
Other 12/3 Student-led Presentations      
12/5 Student-led Presentations     Lab MP4 Due
  12/10 Next: Machine Intelligence, IoT, Computational Offloading (Real-time Edge versus Cloud), etc. Next   Final (Takehome)

Why are Real-time and Cyber-physical Systems Important?

In summary, building a real-time system can be a good idea if you need to make sure that certain parts of your program run in a certain amount of time, or if you need to run your program reliably for long periods of time.

National Instruments Austin, TX

Software engineering has this in common with having children: the labor before the birth is painful and difficult, but the labor after the birth is where you actually spend most of your effort. Yet.

Betsy Beyer Google Site Reliability Engineering

Programming is about managing complexity: the complexity of the problem, laid upon the complexity of the machine. Because of this complexity, most of our programming projects fail.

Bruce Eckel Author of "Thinking in Java"