LinuxDevices.com is pleased to publish the proceedings from the Sixth Real-Time Linux Workshop held in Asia for the first time, November 3-5, 2004, at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The papers span a broad range of topics ranging from fundamental real-time technologies, to applications, to hardware, to tools. As usual, the conference was organized by the Real-Time Linux Foundation.

The links below will lead you to a summary of each talk, and to a link for downloading the associated paper (PDF file). Enjoy . . .

General Applications

• A Smart Milling Fixture Controlled by Distributed RTLinux — by Mario Schüpany and Markus Gusenbauer
• RTAI Based Real-Time Control of Robotic Wheelchair — by Chong Hui Kim, Seong Jin Kim and Byung Kook Kim
• Hardware-In-Loop-Simulator for Mini Aerial Vehicle — by Ashish Gholkar, Amitay Issaccs and Hemendra Arya
• RTLinux on Memory Constrained Systems — by Chester Rebeiro and David Selvakumar
• Hard Real-Time Control of Mechatronic System: FPGA extension for RTAI — by Stefano Carabelli, Marcello Chiaberge, Riccardo Garzella, Luigi Gobetto and Alberto Mazzetto

Embedded Concepts

• The Role of Embedded Linux in a Microwave Point-to-Point Radio Application — by Wee Kiam Peng
• Embedded Linux Platform for a Fault Tolerant Space Based Parallel Computer — by Bharath Ramesh, Timo Bretschneider and Ian McLoughlin
• Embedded Real Time Linux Kernel Design using Game Theory and Control Logic — by Dipnarayan Guha and Mashfique Hassan

Contributions and Concepts

• RAT — Real-Time Audio Tools — by Arvid Staub
• IDE Driver and RTLFS file system for RTLinux — by Alejandro Lucero, Vicente Esteve, Ismael Ripoll and Alfons Crespo
• A Real-Time Compliant Implementation of Linear Time-Invariant Digital Filters in the C Programming Language — by Peter Wurmsdobler and Suvendhu Laha
• Interfacing Linux RTAI with Scilab/Scicos — by Roberto Bucher
• Real Time Display in RT Linux using IO channels — by M. Shivakumar and M. Hemavathy
• Linux for High Performance and Real-Time Computing on SMP Systems — by Jean-Luc Dekeyser, Philippe Marquet, Eric Piel, Julien Soula, Denis Foueillassar, Philippe Couvee, Leonard Sibille, Dominique Ragot, Yulen Sadourny, Quoc-Viet Ha, Hugo Kohmann and Alexis Berlemont

Hardware RTOS

• A Hardware Operating System based Approach for Run-time Reconfigurable Platform of Embedded Devices — by Krishnamoorthy Baskaran and Srikanthan Thambipillai
• Hardware Partitioning Algorithm for Reconfigurable Operating System in Embedded Systems — by Krishnamoorthy Baskaran, Wu Jigang and Srikanthan Thambipillai

Real-Time Modifications

• RTOS Acceleration Techniques — Review and Challenges — by Mohit Sindhwani, Tim Oliver, Douglas L Maskell and T Srikanthan.
• Implementation of ARTiS, an asymmetric real-time extension of SMP Linux — by Philippe Marquet, Eric Piel, Julien Soula, Jean-Luc Dekeyser
• Enhancing Linux/RTAI with Open Source Software Components — by Thibault Garcia and Maryline Silly-Chetto
• Integration of Real-Time Services in User-Space Linux — by Gilles Chanteperdrix, Alexis Berlemont, Dominique Ragot and Philippe Kajfasz
• Case Study of the Performance of Real-Time Linux on the x86 Architecture — by Qingguo Zhou and Baojun Wang

Real-Time Scheduling

• A New Application-Defined Scheduling Implementation in RTLinux — by Arnoldo Diaz, Ismael Ripoll, Alfons Crespo and Patricia Balbastre
• QoS and Aperiodic Tasks Scheduling for Real-Time Linux Applications — by Audrey Marchand and Maryline Silly-Chetto

Real-Time Interpreter

• Early Experience with an Implementation of Java on RTLinux — by Miguel Masmano, Ismael Ripoll, Jorge Real and Alfons Crespo

 
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