Reconfiguration of Embedded Systems

This paper deals with automatic reconfiguration of embedded systems following the Component-based Standard IEC61499. First of all, we propose a new reconfiguration semantic allowing the improvement of the system performance even if there is no hardware fault. In addition, we characterize all possible reconfiguration forms in order to cover all possible execution scenarios and to apply an automatic reconfiguration, we define thereafter an agent-based architecture that we model with nested state machines to control the design