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The complexity of current computer control systems arises from the engineering requirement to integrate computers, actuators and sensors for control, signal processing and data networks, visualisation and display with the technology of the application domain. Further, real-time control systems, employing embedded and distributed computing, as compared with central supervisory computers, have the added difficulty of correct task computation to time deadlines and associated reliability specifications.
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Irwin, G.W. (1997). Preface to the special issue on ‘the engineering of complex real-time computer control systems’. In: Irwin, G.W. (eds) The Engineering of Complex Real-Time Computer Control Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-34653-3_1
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