Abstraction of In-Vehicle Event-Triggered Networked Control Systems for Scheduling

The number of electronic control systems applied in vehicles has increased dramatically overthe years. This trend will only continue with the introduction of novel technologies such asadvanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). To save cable weight and costs in-vehicle controlsystems often use shared communication networks. With the increasing use of in-vehiclecontrol systems the scheduling of these networks becomes a serious challenge.In this master thesis a new event-triggered approach for the scheduling of networked controlsystems (NCSs) using timed game automata (TGA) is considered. This new approachyields some potential benefits over existing communication protocols and has already beenimplemented successfully on two-dimensional linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. To obtainthe control system TGA for this scheduling approach the NCSs have to be abstracted. Thecontrol system abstraction method that is used has to be modified in order to be able tohandle higher dimensional systems as well, and that is exactly the focus of this master thesis.The abstraction method is extended and applied to three-dimensional and four-dimensionalin-vehicle LTI control systems. The outcomes are checked using simulations which show thatthe applied abstraction method works.