An Example of Fault Detection and Reconfiguration-Based Tolerance Within Distributed Embedded Control Systems

This chapter introduces some devised solutions for fault detection within embedded control systems. These are a follow-on to the successful IST FW5 project IFATIS at the Laboratory for Real-Time Systems of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The topic will first be elaborated on and the overall results of the original project are presented. Then in continuation some later enhancements and improvements will be shown together with original implementations of specific parts, e.g. discrete field-programmable gate array (FPGA)- and programmable system on chip (PSoC)-based fault monitoring cells.