LinuxDevices.com is pleased to publish the proceedings from the Fourth Real-Time Linux Workshop held December 6-7, 2002 in Boston, MA at the Computer Science Department, Boston University. The conference was organized by the Real-Time Linux Foundation.

The links below will lead you to summaries of each talk and, in most cases, PDF file downloads of the full presentation. Enjoy . . .

Industrial and experimental applications

• Space Robotics: an Experimental Set-up based on RTAI-Linux, by Alessandro Macchelli, C. Melchiorri, R. Carloni and M. Guidetti
• Flash Storage in Linux-Based Residential Gateways, by Zachi Friedman
• Real-time Linux in Chemical Process Control: Some Application Results, by Andrey Romanenko, Lino O. Santos and Paulo A.F.N.A. Afonso
• A Digital PID Controller Using RTAI, by Rodrigo da Silva Guerra, Hermes Jose Goncalves and Walter Fetter Lages
• Graphic Supervisor of Lung Ventilator, by River Quispe Tacas, Alejandro Palomino Amaro, Adolfo Ascanio Rafael and Carlos Albino Rivera

Contributions and architectures

• A Sample Data Acquisition and Control Application Using RTLab, by Calin Culianu and David Christini
• Generic Real-Time Infrastructure for Signal Acquisition, Generation and Processing, by Herman Bruyninckx and Peter Soetens
• RealBOX, A Novel Approach to MiniRTL Implementation for Instrumentation And Control Applications, by Nurpinar Akdeniz and Tekin Aydin
• Graphical Programming of Realtime Applications with LabVIEW for Linux RTAI, by Thomas Leibner and Gerd Schmitz
• Pretty Pictures in Hard Real-Time, by P. N. Daly, C.F. Claver, D. Dryden, R. Gomez and B. Abareshi
• Driver Architecture in a Linux World, by John W. Linville

General issues and concepts

• Teaching Real-Time Control Using Free Systems Software, by Kenneth H. Jacker
• Loosely Coupled Tool Integration Architecture for Embedded Linux, by Seung Woo Son, Hyung Taek Lim, Chae Deok Lim and Heung Nam Kim
• GNU Bayonne: Telephony Services for Freely Licensed Operating Systems, by David Sugar
• Shielded Processors: Guaranteeing Sub-millisecond Response in Standard Linux, by Steve Brosky and Steve Rotolo
• Improving the Responsiveness of Linux Applications in RTAI, by Luca Marzario, Luca Abeni and Giuseppe Lipari
• Implementing Resource Reservations in Linux, by Luca Abeni and Giuseppe Lipari
• Predictability in Embedded Linux and Commercial Requirements, by Masatoshi Iwasaki and Tatsuo Nakajima
• A Quality-of-Service Enhanced Socket API in GNU/Linux, by Hasan Abbasi, Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Gregory Losik and Richard West
• An Assessment of Real-Time Robot Control over IP Networks, by Gustavo Hommerding Alt and Walter Fetter Lages
• RTLinux POSIX API for IO on Real-time FIFOs and Shared Memory, by Cort Dougan and Matt Sherer
• Bandwidth Allocation in RT-Linux, by Vladimir Pajkovski
• Using Linux Kernel Facilities from RT-threads, by Nicholas McGuire

Papers the author of which was unable to attend

• Optimal Pulse Patterns Modulator Using Real Time Linux, by David Antonio Ulloa Guzman
• A Simulation Framework for Device Driver Development, by Yan ShouMeng and Zhou XingShe
• RTLinux Kickstart Session, by Nicholas McGuire

Abstracts from which no paper was provided

• Real-Time Linux for Flight Testing Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and GA Aircraft, by Charles E. Hall
• FSMLabs RTLinux PSDD: Hard real-time with memory protection, by Victor Yodaiken, Michael Barabanov, Cort Dougan
• POSIX Application Defined Scheduling on RTLinux, by Josep Vidal, F. Gonzálvez and I. Ripoll
• A Remote Surveillance and Control System Prototype with RTLinux and RTNET, by Yan Shoumeng and Zhou Xingshe
• Simulating a Vehicle with RTLinux for the Testing of Transmission Control Units, by Karl Rentsch
• Calling Plain Linux Device Drivers Functions from Hard Real Time Tasks, by Walter Fetter Lages
• Yet Another RTAI Interface, by Francesco Mandracci
• Realtime Dynamic Systems Implementation with DSLib, by Ivan Martinez, Jim Luther and Elbert Hendricks

 
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