Event-driven control as an opportunity in the multidisciplinary development of embedded controllers

Severe requirements on embedded controllers ask for new approaches that can effectively bridge the existing gap between the disciplines software and control engineering. Event-driven control is presented as an opportunity to create a negotiable environment for the sample frequency, control performance and the usage of processing power. Simulations show that event-driven control can reduce the average processor load without influencing the control performance too much. Some first ideas for analysis and synthesis techniques look promising and future research is focus on the extension of these techniques.