Title
Fault-tolerant embedded control systems for unreliable hardware
Abstract
Past years have seen intense research on reliability techniques for error detection recovery at various levels ranging from circuit level up to architectural level or even software level. In such scenarios, affordable techniques for error correction usually imply a timing penalty, e.g., check-pointing usually requires to repeat some part of the computation, which imposes a higher computation time. This can be problematic for real-time embedded control applications especially in the presence of intermittent hardware faults, for which delays due to re-computation are repeatedly encountered with high repetition rate. In this work, we investigate a setting where the control loops are executed on an unreliable embedded platform that may suffer from such intermittent faults. First, we characterize the impact of intermittent faults in the hardware by using an intermittent bit-flip fault model and RTL level error effect simulation. Subsequently, we look at novel fault-tolerant control algorithms that guarantee stability of the loops even in presence of repeating timing errors due to the error recovery of the unreliable hardware.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ISICIR.2014.7029568
ISIC
Keywords
Field
DocType
embedded systems,error correction,error detection,fault tolerant control,reliability,rtl level error effect simulation,architectural level,control loops,error detection recovery,fault-tolerant embedded control systems,intermittent bit-flip fault model,intermittent hardware faults,reliability techniques,repeating timing errors,software level,timing penalty,unreliable embedded platform,unreliable hardware,fault modeling,fault-tolerant control law,indexes,control systems,decision support systems
Computer science,Decision support system,Real-time computing,Error detection and correction,Ranging,Software,Fault tolerance,Control system,Computer hardware,Fault model,Embedded system,Computation
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2325-0631
1
0.37
References 
Authors
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dip Goswami127831.58
Daniel Müller-Gritschneder2267.53
Twan Basten31833132.45
Ulf Schlichtmann464570.67
Samarjit Chakraborty51840185.70