IntroductiontoLinux forReal-TimeControl

Documents

Introduction to Linux for Real-Time Control, a document prepared for NIST by Aeolean Inc. that describes the various real-time Linux approaches. [PDF, 740K]:

Measuring Performance in Real-Time Linux, a presentation at the Third Real-Time Linux Workshop in Milan Italy in October 2001 that describes techniques to measure software timing. [PDF, 632K] The accompanying paper. [PDF, 236K]

Real-time Operating System Timing Jitter and its Impact on Motor Control, proceedings of the 2001 SPIE Conference on Sensors and Controls for Intelligent Manufacturing II. [PDF, 106K]

Embedded Real-Time Linux for Cable Robot Control, a presentation at the ASME Computers in Engineering conference in Montreal Canada in October 2002 that describes embedded- and real-time Linux and a cable robot application. [PDF, 1M] The accompanying paper. [PDF, 98K]

Real-Time and Embedded Linux for Manufacturing and Robotics, a presentation at the March 2003 eGov Open Source Conference in Washington DC that describes real-time and embedded systems and some applications. [PDF, 2.5M]

Use of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense, a document prepared for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) by The MITRE Corporation. [PDF, 4.2M]

Free and open source software, a document prepared by the Swedish Agency for Public Management (STATSKONTORET) that describes open source software in general. [PDF, 94K]

Articles

A comparison of hard real-time Linux alternatives, by Peter Laurich for LinuxDevices.com, 19 November 2004.