Vessel passage scheduling through cascaded bridges using mixed-integer programming

This paper addresses the problem of guaranteeing efficient inland waterway transport in the presence of sequential movable bridges, which must be operated to grant vessel passage. The main contribution is the formulation of the vessel passage scheduling problem as a mixedinteger programming problem. The scheduling algorithm receives vessel...

A Priority-Based Real-Time Scheduling Framework for ROS2

Since its introduction in 2007, ROS (Robot Operating System) has become one of the most popular framework for developing automated solutions in a variety of applications, ranging from automotive to manufacturing. Meeting safety-critical timing requirements is a crucial element in many fields where ROS is present. The ROS community has introduced...

Evaluation of Time-window Trajectories with respect to Fuel Consumption and Arrival Time

The flight planning process is an extensive and long process to direct and maintain a high level of operations within the airspace. As air traffic demand grows year after year, it's worthwhile to optimise the European air traffic system further. One way of optimising the system, is by creating optimal flight schedules that solve for demand...

Automating scheduler design for Networked Control Systems with Event-Based Control: An approach with Timed Automata

As the use of Networked Control Systems increases, the need for control methods with more efficient network usage also grows. These methods require a more sophisticated way of pre- dicting their traffic, and an approach for this is using a formal modelling approach using Timed Automata. Timed Automata have been used for over 25 years for several...

Automated Multi-core Scheduling for an Industrial-sized Mechatronic Motion Control Platform

Mechatronic embedded control systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated and computationally demanding. These systems typically consists of multiple controllers, which coordinate the actuators and apply feedback based on data collected by sensors. Often the underlying control strategy is entirely described in a software application, which...

Analytics at the speed of light: Feasibility and challenges for real time analytics of large datasets in hybrid clouds.

''Real-time services'' is a very challenging topic. Running analytics in real-time when there is an abstract network layer makes things even more complicated. The demand to analyze huge data-sets in real time or in the long term has been increasing over the past decade in many sectors including health-care, general science and various online...

Improving real-time train dispatching: Models, algorithms and applications

Traffic controllers monitor railway traffic sequencing train movements and setting routes with the aim of ensuring smooth train behaviour and limiting as much as existing delays. Due to the strict time limit available for computing a new timetable during operations, which so far is rather infeasible by using existing tools, railway traffic...