REACT: A simple framework for reactive systems
Leszek Holenderski · 2008
Many software/hardware systems developed in Philips Research, especially those that serve as demonstrators for research ideas or product proposals developed in the Lifestyle sector, are so-called reactive systems. A reactive system consists of sensors, actuators and a control module. Sensors and actuators are usually realized in hardware while the control module is usually realized in software. The control module decides what actuators to trigger in response to what sensor data. Such systems can be developed much faster, and can be made much more flexible for further modifications, if they are developed using modern software development methods instead of the traditional ones. We propose such a modern framework based on the scripting language Tcl. We show how simple, and still highly flexible, this kind of architecture can be.