Real Time Process Control (Introduction)

2. Real Time Process Control (Introduction) Tono Riesco Electronics Engineer CERN

3. Agenda • Introduction • Control systems • Basic concepts • Real-Time • Task Scheduling • Real-Time in Linux

4. Control System In all the control systems, we found 3 basic components: • System to be controlled • With sensors, actuators, cables…etc. • Controller • Send orders to the system according a predetermined control objective. • Environment • Where the control system operates.

5. Typical Control System Controller Feedback Environment System

6. Control System Details System Actuators Controller Environment Data Filters Sensors Data Process

7. Types of Control Systems Depending of the interactions with the environment we distinguish 3 types of control systems: • Monitoring Systems • Do not modify the environment • Open-loop control systems • Loosely modify the environment • Closed-loop control systems • Tight interaction between perception and action

8. Monitoring Systems Do not modify the environment Sensor 1 Environment Data Process Data Filters Sensor 2 Sensor n Display Examples: surveillance systems, air traffic control

9. Open-Loop Control Systems Sensing and control are loosely coupled Controller System Actuators Environment Planning Data Process Sensors Examples: assembly robots, industrial chains, access systems

10. Closed-Loop Control Systems Sensing and control are tightly coupled Controller System Actuators Environment Planning Data Process Sensors Examples: humans, flight control systems, safety systems

11. Conclusions • If we have a tight interaction with the environment, the system has to react to events within precise timing constrains. • Timing constrains are imposed by the environment. • The control system must to be able to execute tasks within time constraints.

12. What’s a Real Time System? I • “A real-time system is one in which the correctness of the computations not only depends upon the logical correctness of the computation but also upon the time at which the result is produced. • If the timing constraints of the system are not met, system failure is said to have occurred” Donald Gillies.

13. What’s a Real Time System? II • System capable of guaranteeing timing requirements of the processes under its control. • It is essential that the timing constraints of the system are guaranteed to be met. Guaranteeing timing behavior requires that the system be predictable. • It is also desirable that the system attain a high degree of utilization while satisfying the timing constraints of the system. • Late or early answer → Wrong answer • Guarantee worst case vs. best effort

14. What’s not a Real-Time System? I • A real-time system is not a fast system. • AFAP systems • Speed is always relative to a specific environment. • Running faster is good, but does not guarantee a correct behavior. • Real-time systems is not on-line systems or "an interactive system with better response time than we had".

15. Real-Time examples • Bottling plant • Servo loops in an airplane when on auto-pilot

16. How has to be a real time system? • Fast • Predictable • Deterministic

17. Fast meaning in Real Time • Fast means that it has a low latency • It responds to external, asynchronous events in a short time. The lower the latency, the better the system will respond to events which require immediate attention

18. Predictable • Predictable means that it is able to determine task's completion time with certainty. • Predictable refers to a system whose timing behavior is always within an acceptable range. The behavior is specified on a system-wide basis, such as “all tasks will meet all deadlines”.

19. Deterministic • Special case of a predictable system. • Not only is the timing behavior within a certain range, but that timing behavior can be pre-determined. • Pre-allocated time slots for each task. • Execution for each task occurs only during those time slots. Determinism is not essential to build predictable real-time systems.

20. Real Time Systems Real Time System Event Action • Real Time: System able to respond to events within precise timing constraints.

21. Real Time System t x (t) Real Time Systems Environment y (t +Δ) • It is a system in which the correctness depends not only on the output values, but also on the time at which results are produced.

22. Real-Time classification

23. Definitions • Task • is a sequence of instructions that in the absence of other activities is continuously executed by the system until completion. t ai si fi

24. Definitions • Real-Time Task τi Di Ci Li Lai τi t ri si fi di ri Request time (arrival time) si Start Time fi Finish Time di Absolute Deadline Di Relative deadline Ci Worst Case execution time (wcet) Li Latency Lai Lateness (fi - di) Ti Tardiness (max (0, Lai))

25. Definitions • Lateness • Quality of coming late or later in time • Tardiness • Quality of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time • Latency • The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it • Jitter • Random variation in the timing of a signal, especially a clock

26. Task status

27. The readytasks go to the “waiting queue” the ready queue The strategy of choosing which task go before is known schedule algorithm τ1 τ2 τ3 Queue Ready Tasks Not a FIFO Queue!!! Dispatching CPU Activation

28. Task Status Transitions Finished Running Wait Dispatching Preemption Blocked Ready Activation Signal