From automotive to autonomous: Time-triggered operating systems

This paper presents an approach for application of time-triggered paradigm to the domain of autonomous systems. Autonomous systems are intensively used in areas, or situations, which could be dangerous to humans or which are remote and hardly accessible. In the case when an autonomous system is safety critical and should react to the environmental changes running within a very limited time frame, we deal with the same kind of problems as automotive and avionic systems: timing properties and their analysis become a crucial part of the system development. To analyse timing properties and to show the fault-tolerance of the communication, a predictable timing of the system is needed