A New Perspective on Criticality: Efficient State Abstraction and Run-Time Monitoring of Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Control Systems

Rheinfels T, Gaukler M, Ulbrich P (2023)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2023

Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik

Series: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)

City/Town: Dagstuhl, Germany

Book Volume: 262

Pages Range: 11:1-11:26

Conference Proceedings Title: 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023)

Event location: Vienna AT

URI: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18040/

DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2023.11

Open Access Link: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18040/pdf/LIPIcs-ECRTS-2023-11.pdf

Abstract

The increasing complexity of real-time systems, comprising control tasks interacting with physics and non-control tasks, comes with substantial challenges: meeting various non-functional requirements implies conflicting design goals and a pronounced gap between worst and average-case resource requirements up to the overall timeliness being unverifiable. Mixed-criticality systems (MCS) is a well-known mitigation concept that operates the system in different criticality levels with timing guarantees given only to the subset of critical tasks. However, in many real-world applications, the criticality of control tasks is tied to the system’s physical state and control deviation, with safety specifications becoming a crucial design objective. Monitoring the physical state and adapting scheduling is inaccessible to MCS but has been dedicated mainly to control engineering approaches such as self-triggered (model-predictive) control. These, however, are hard to integrate with scheduling or expensive at run-time.

This paper explores the potential of linking both worlds and elevating the physical state to a criticality criterion. We, therefore, propose a dedicated state estimation that can be leveraged as a run-time monitor for criticality mode changes. For this purpose, we develop a highly efficient one-dimensional state abstraction to be computed within the operating system’s scheduling. Furthermore, we show how to limit abstraction pessimism by feeding back state measurements robustly. The paper focuses on the control fundamentals and outlines how to leverage this new tool in adaptive scheduling. Our experimental results substantiate the efficiency and applicability of our approach.

Authors with CRIS profile

Tim Rheinfels Lehrstuhl für Informatik 4 (Verteilte Systeme und Betriebssysteme) Maximilian Gaukler Chair of Automatic Control

Involved external institutions

Technische Universität Dortmund DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Rheinfels, T., Gaukler, M., & Ulbrich, P. (2023). A New Perspective on Criticality: Efficient State Abstraction and Run-Time Monitoring of Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Control Systems. In Papadopoulos, Alessandro V. (Eds.), 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023) (pp. 11:1-11:26). Vienna, AT: Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.

MLA:

Rheinfels, Tim, Maximilian Gaukler, and Peter Ulbrich. "A New Perspective on Criticality: Efficient State Abstraction and Run-Time Monitoring of Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Control Systems." Proceedings of the 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023), Vienna Ed. Papadopoulos, Alessandro V., Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023. 11:1-11:26.

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