Software enabled control: background and motivation
Bonnie S. Heck, L.M. Wills, George Vachtsevanos · 2001
This paper is a tutorial on recent advances in software technologies that have the potential to make a large impact on the way control systems are implemented. Concepts such as distributed computing, software components, interoperability, open standards, middleware, real-time computing, scheduling and adaptive resource management are defined and described in the context of control systems.