Component-Based Design of Software for Embedded Control Systems: The Medical Ventilator Case Study

Author

Zhou, Feng ; Guan, Wei ; Sierszecki, Krzysztof ; Angelov, Christo

Author_Institution

Mads Clausen Inst. for Product Innovation, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Soenderborg

fYear

2009

fDate

25-27 May 2009

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

163

Abstract

COMDES-II is a component-based framework for distributed control systems featuring open architecture and predictable operation under hard real-time constraints. It has been experimentally validated in a number of case studies, including the Medical Ventilator Case Study discussed in the paper. The latter presents COMDES-II design models used to re-engineer the control system of an existing Medical Ventilator machine, and the resulting software implementation. The accumulated experience has helped reveal areas of possible improvement, and they have been taken into consideration while developing the latest version of the framework - COMDES-III.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; control engineering computing; distributed control; embedded systems; object-oriented programming; software architecture; COMDES-III; component-based design; component-based framework; distributed control systems; embedded control systems; medical ventilator machine; open architecture; real-time constraints; software implementation; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Design methodology; Distributed control; Embedded software; Medical control systems; Multitasking; Real time systems; Software design; Software safety; actors; component-based design; distributed timed multitasking; embedded systems; function blocks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded Software and Systems, 2009. ICESS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zhejiang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4359-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICESS.2009.72

Filename

5066643