Introduction: Here are the abstracts of 28 talks on real-time Linux that were given at the second annual Real-time Linux Workshop, held in Orlando, Florida on November 27-28, 2000. Links to the associated papers (PDF files), if available, are also provided.

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Workshop Presentations from the
Workshop on Real Time Operating Systems and Applications
and
The Second Real Time Linux Workshop

• PC-Based Open Architecture Servo Controller for CNC Machining — by Surya Kommareddy — abstract
  
• PICARD on RT-Linux: A Component Software Architecture for the Real-Time Control System — by Osok Song — abstract
  
• Real-Time Linux: Testing and Evaluation — by Phil Wilshire — abstract
  
• Simulation-Based Temporal Debugging of Linux — by Lars Albertsson — abstract
  
• Employing Real-Time Linux in a Test Bench for Rotating Micro Mechanical Devices — by Peter Wurmsdobler — abstract
  
• Monitoring and Analyzing RTAI System Behavior Using the Linux Trace Toolkit — by Karim Yaghmour — abstract
  
• Some Experience in Fast Hard Real-time Control in User Space with RTAI-LXRT — by Emanuele Bianchi — abstract
  
• Telemetry Using Soft-Realtime — by Jürgen Keidel — abstract
  
• Remote Data Acquisition and Control System for Mössbauer Spectroscopy Based on RT-Linux — by Zhou Qing Guo — abstract
  
• A Coming Age for GPS: A RTLinux GPS Receiver — by B.M. Ledvina — abstract
  
• Robot Control Using Real-Time Linux — by Pavel Andris — abstract
  
• Architecture of a Two-Axis Positioning Gimbal Control — by Stephen D. Cohen — abstract
  
• Sharing Memory between Kernel and User Space in Linux — by Tomasz Motylewski — abstract
  
• COMEDI — The Linux Control and Measurement Device Interface — by David Schleef — abstract
  
• Serial Port Driver of Real-Time Linux — by Jochen Küpper — abstract
  
• SimuLinuxRT — the MATLAB/SIMULINK Real-Time Interface — by Quanser Consulting — abstract
  
• The Real-Time Controls Laboratory, an Open Source Hard Real-Time Controls Implementation Platform — by Edgar Hilton — abstract
  
• Interfacing Real-Time Linux and LabVIEW — by Philip N. Daly — abstract
  
• Real-Time Linux Meets LabVIEW — by Thomas Leibner — abstract
  
• MiniRTL — Hard Real-Time Linux for Embedded Systems — by Nicholas McGuire — abstract
  
• DIAPM-RTAI Position Paper — by Pierre Cloutier — abstract
  
• FSMLabs RTLinux V3 and Beyond — by Victor Yodaiken — abstract
  
• Open Real-Time Linux — by Chi-Sheng Shih — abstract
  
• Using Real-Time Linux in Safety Critical Applications — by Thomas Bihari — abstract
  
• Some Discussion on the Low Latency Patch for Linux — by K.J. Lin — abstract
  
• Recent Developments with Linux/RK — by Ragunathan Rajkumar — abstract
  
• Architecture for a Portable Open Source Real-Time Kernel Environment — Giuseppe Lipari — abstract
  
• Flexible User/Kernel Communication for Real-Time Applications in ELinux — by Christian Pöllabauer — abstract

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Please note: this document including the abstracts linked from it are Copyleft 2000, The Thinking Nerds, and reproduced with permission.

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