CAREER: Integrating Control, Computation, and Communication - A Design Automation Flow for Distributed Embedded Systems

职业：集成控制、计算和通信 - 分布式嵌入式系统的设计自动化流程

• 批准号: 0644202
• 负责人: Luca Carloni
• 金额: $ 43.04万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-02-01 至 2013-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0644202&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Integrating; Control; Computation; Communication

Steady advances in enabling technologies such as semiconductor circuits, wireless networking, and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are making possible the design of complex distributed (networked) embedded systems which are expected to benefit important application areas such as public infrastructure, industrial automation, automotive industry, and consumer electronics. However, the heterogeneous and distributed nature of many such systems requires design teams with a multifaceted set of skills spanning automatic control, communication networks, and hardware/software computational systems. Computer-aided design, a traditionally interdisciplinary research area, is instrumental in making these systems feasible and in enhancing the productivity of the design process. This NSF CAREER research is developing new modeling techniques, optimization algorithms, communication protocols, and interface processes that combined yield a novel design automation flow for distributed embedded-control applications that must depend on networked communication, such as automotive "X-by-wire systems" and integrated buildings. The goal is both to simplify the integrated design and validation of these systems and to foster collaboration among engineers with different expertise. Research contributions include new methods for the robust deployment of real-time embedded software and for the synthesis of distributed implementations that meet performance requirements while balancing the usage of communication and computational resources. The companion educational program is founded on the belief that the academic curriculum needs to be updated in order to overcome the historical and artificial boundaries among those disciplines in electrical engineering and computer science that lie at the core of embedded computing.

半导体电路、无线网络和微机电系统（MEMS）等使能技术的稳步发展使复杂分布式（网络化）嵌入式系统的设计成为可能，这些系统有望使公共基础设施、工业自动化、汽车工业和消费电子等重要应用领域受益。 然而，许多这样的系统的异构性和分布式的性质，需要设计团队与跨自动控制，通信网络和硬件/软件计算系统的多方面的技能。 计算机辅助设计是一个传统的跨学科研究领域，有助于使这些系统可行，并提高设计过程的生产力。这项NSF CAREER研究正在开发新的建模技术、优化算法、通信协议和接口过程，这些技术相结合，为必须依赖网络通信的分布式嵌入式控制应用（如汽车“X-by-wire系统”和集成建筑）提供了一种新颖的设计自动化流程。 其目标是简化这些系统的集成设计和验证，并促进具有不同专业知识的工程师之间的协作。研究贡献包括实时嵌入式软件的鲁棒部署和分布式实现的合成，满足性能要求，同时平衡通信和计算资源的使用的新方法。 同伴教育计划是建立在这样的信念，即学术课程需要更新，以克服在嵌入式计算的核心在于电气工程和计算机科学的学科之间的历史和人为的界限。