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This chapter discusses some crucial issues related to the design and the development of complex real-time applications requiring sensory acquisition, control, and actuation of mechanical components. The aim of this part is to give a precise characterization of control applications, so that theory developed for real-time computing and scheduling algorithms can be practically used in this field to make complex control systems more reliable. In fact, a precise observation of the timing constraints specified in the control loops and in the sensory acquisition processes is a necessary condition for guaranteeing a stable behavior of the controlled system, as well as a predictable performance.

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Buttazzo, G. (2024). Application Design Issues. In: Hard Real-Time Computing Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45410-3_11

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