• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.2 no.7
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• pp.277-282
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• 2013

Recently, there is a growing need for an open software platform where developers easily write intelligent motion control applications for smart cars, smart robots, smart factories, and so on. To this end, a general-purpose operating system with rich functionalities and various hardware supports can be a candidate for such a platform, but it is known to have limitations in guaranteeing the responsiveness of individual applications. In this paper, to assess the suitability of Linux to be such a platform, we evaluate the real-time performance of Xenomai-patched Linux on an ARM-based processor Exynos4210 with motion control applications. Experimental results show that it is possible to stably provide motion cycle times below 1ms to such applications even with background workloads.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.1117-1123
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• 2008

This paper implements dual-kernel system using standard Linux and real-time embedded Linux for the real-time control of intelligent robot systems. Such system provides more useful services including standard Linux thread that is easy to implement complicated tasks and real-time tasks for the deterministic response to velocity control. Here, an open source real-time embedded Linux, XENOMAI, is ported on embedded target board. And for interfacing with motor controller we adopted a real-time serial device driver. The real-time task was implemented with a priority to keep the cyclic control command for trajectory control. In order to validate deterministic response of the proposed system, the performance measurement of the delay in performing trajectory control with feedback loop is evaluated with non real-time standard Linux. The proposed software architecture is anticipated to take advantage of features in both standard Linux and real-time operating systems for the intelligent robot systems.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.1036-1042
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• 2013

In this paper, an elderly assistance system is developed based on Xenomai, a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel. A Kinect sensor is used to recognize the behavior of the elderly and A-star search algorithm is implemented to find the shortest path to the person. The mobile robot also generates a trajectory using a digital convolution operator which is based on a Bezier curve for smooth driving. In order to follow the generated trajectory within the control period, we developed real-time tasks and compared the performance of the tracking trajectory with that of non real-time tasks. The real-time task has a better result on following the trajectory within the physical constraints which means that it is more appropriate to apply to an elderly assistant system.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.52-62
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• 2008

As various types of embedded devices are widely used, a technology that supports reuse of applications on multiple platforms is needed in order for time-to-market development of the applications. The interface middleware is one of such technology and it hides platform dependency from application programmers. Existing interface middleware such as the MT project, Xenomai and Legacy2linux have limitation in that the APIs provided by each of these middleware are fixed to a specific operating system, and the middleware does not provide dynamic expansion of its API set. In this paper, we propose a middleware which hides operating system dependencies and enables porting of applications on various operating systems. In addition, the middleware has scalable structure so that it is suitable for resource-limited embedded systems. The overhead of the middleware, i.e., the time delay occurred by the middleware is between $0.3{\mu}sec\;and\;5{\mu}sec$ in most cases. We believe that the amount of overhead is reasonable and does not hurt the performance of applications.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.7
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• pp.785-797
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• 2014

Support for the precise time synchronization of EtherCAT, known as distributed clock (DC), enables the design of highly synchronized operations in distributed real-time systems. This study evaluates the performance of the EtherCAT DC through extensive experiments in a real automation system. We constructed an EtherCAT control system using Xenomai and IgH EtherCAT stack, and analyzed the clock deviation for different devices in the network. The results of the evaluation revealed that the accuracy of the synchronized clock is affected by several factors such as the number of slave devices, period of drift compensation, and type of system time base. In particular, we found that careful decision regarding the system time base is required because it has a fundamental effect on the master operation, which results in significantly different performance characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.313-317
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• 2006

응용프로그램의 개발 비용이 높아지고 개발 기간이 점차 단축되면서, 응용프로그램의 재사용에 대한 연구가 다양하게 진행되고 있다. 특히 실시간 응용프로그램들은 플랫폼 종속성에 의해 다른 운영체제에서 새로 개발해야하므로 개발 비용과 시간상의 문제가 심각하다. 이러한 문제점을 극복하기 위해 OS Changer, Xenomai, Leagcy2Linux와 같은 다양한 인터페이스 미들웨어들이 개발되었으나 미들웨어에서 제공되는 API가 특정 운영체제에 종속되거나, API의 확장성을 제공하지 못한다는 문제점이 존재한다. 본 연구에서는 기존 미들웨어들의 문제점을 극복하고, 더 나아가 API를 동적으로 재구성할 수 있는 실시간 운영체제 인터페이스용 미들웨어를 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.26-32
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• 2022

EtherCAT is an Ethernet-based fieldbus system standardized in IEC 61158 and SEMI, and widely used in the fields of factory automation, semiconductor equipment and robotics. In this paper, an EtherCAT master is implemented on an embedded board with Arm based 64-bit quad-core processor and its jitter performance is evaluated at the output of the network interface to include all the effects of the entire system in the results. For the EtherCAT master system, an open source EtherCAT master stack, Simple Open EtherCAT Master (SOEM), is installed on PREEMPT_RT patched Linux operating system for real-time operation. The results show that the jitter performance is comparable to that of Xenomai-based master and the EtherCAT master with two master instances has similar jitter performance to the EtherCAT master with one master instance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1613-1616
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• 2010

본 논문은 실시간 운영체제인 Xenomai 를 사용하여, 회전익 무인항공기 소프트웨어 개발에 대한 내용을 설명하고 있다. 실시간 운영체제 사용하여 고정 순위 우선 스케줄링을 채택함으로써 데드라인의 타이밍(Timming) 결정성을 보장하였고, 이기종 시스템과의 호환성과 확장성을 고려하여 POSIX API 를 사용하여 멀티 쓰레드를 구현하였다. 또한 실시간 드라이버 모델(RTDM : Real-Time Driver Model)을 사용하여 획득한 데이터를 실시간 전송이 가능하도록 하였다. 본 논문은 실시간 운영체제를 무인항공기에 적용하고 구현된 비행제어 컴퓨터와 제어 소프트웨어를 비율 단조 스케줄링을 적용하여 무인항공기의 쓰레드들의 응답 속도 및 안정성을 보장하는 방안을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.720-725
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• 2008

This paper proposes a system architecture for USN with a service robot to provide more active assisted living services for elderly persons by monitoring their mental and physical well-being with USN environments at home, hospital, or silver town. Sensors embedded in USN are used to detect preventive measures for chronic disease. Logged data are transferred to main controller of a service robot via wireless channel in which the analysis of data is performed. For the purpose of handling emergency situations, it needs real-time processing on gathering variety sensor data, routing algorithms for sensor nodes to a moving sink node and processing of logged data. This paper realized multi-hop sensor network to detect user movements with biometric data transmission and performed algorithms on Xenomai, a real-time embedded Linux. To leverage active sensing, a mobile robot is used of which task was implemented with a priority to process urgent data came from the sink-node. This software architecture is anticipated to integrate sensing, communication and computing with real-time manner. In order to verify the usefulness of a proposed system, the performance of data transferring and processing on a real-time OS with non real-time OS is also evaluated.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.134-142
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• 2021

This paper proposes a probabilistic method in analyzing timing measurements to determine the periodicity of real-time tasks. The proposed method fills a gap in existing techniques, which either concentrate on the estimation of worst-case execution times, or do not consider the stochastic behavior of the real-time scheduler. Our method is based on the Z-test statistical analysis which calculates the probability of the measured period to fall within a user-defined standard deviation limit. The distribution of the measured period should satisfy two conditions: its center (statistical mean) should be equal to the scheduled period of the real-time task, and that it should be symmetrical with most of the samples focused on the center. To ensure that these requirements are met, a data adjustment process, which omits any outliers in the expense of accuracy, is presented. Then, the Z-score of the distribution according to the user-defined deviation limit provides a probability which determines the periodicity of the real-time task. Experiments are conducted to analyze the timing measurements of real-time tasks based on real-time Linux extensions of Xenomai and RT-Preempt. The results indicate that the proposed method is able to provide easier interpretation of the periodicity of real-time tasks which are valuable especially in comparing the performance of various real-time systems.