Résumé des résultats (Abstract)
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The ITEA SPACE4U project covers several topics related to the management of the customer terminal, the management of the power consumption as well as the optimisation of its use, especially in the context of portable autonomous terminals, the support for faults (fault-tolerance), etc. The project involves several important companies, such as Nokia, Philips and Fagor, research companies, like Ikerlan, as well as Universities, like the Technical University of Eindhoven and the University of Madrid. The project officially started in July 2003 and ends in December 2004. Taking into account the successful results of the ITEA ROBOCOP project, the swiss partners (Saia-Burgess Controls and CSEM) want to join the SPACE4U project in order to define and validate techniques for improving the availability and the reliability of embedded, resource-constrained devices. The swiss partners therefore focus on the fault-management techniques that can be used at execution in industrial controllers and associated intelligent modules, which are sometimes used in real-time, mission-critical applications, like automotive, transportation, ships, etc. RATIONALE A ROBOCOP system, such as some of the SBC products, exploits mechanisms that allow for its upgrade or update while in operation, so that new standards or new required or emerging functionality can be integrated into the system, and so that developments can be shared, or Components-Off-The-Shelf can be reused. Given these new features, it is necessary to ensure that these systems will support the diversity of combinations made of components that are built by first, second or third-party business entities. This includes the support for error occurrence. Moreover, control systems exhibit a long life cycle in a fast evolving market, for instance in terms of communication and sensing capability, or for supporting the newly developed standards. This high evolution speed prevents the control
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