Towards Self-Adaptation on Real-World Hardware: A Preliminary Lightweight Programming Framework

Self-adaptive systems can adapt to environmental changes. In spite of many studies of self-adaptive systems, there are few implementations of them on real-world hardware. One of the main reasons for this is that the existing programming frameworks do not pay enough attention to the constraints on real-world hardware. In this study, we focus on an adaptation mechanism for real-world embedded systems and present a preliminary programming framework to implement self-adaptive embedded systems. As a case study we build a self-adaptive system using our framework on LEGO Mind storms EV3 to demonstrate the feasibility of our framework.