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RTS Module 1

The document discusses the history and concepts of real-time computer systems. It describes how real-time computing originated from projects in the 1940s-1950s to develop flight simulators and air defense systems. Modern real-time systems control complex applications like nuclear power stations. The document outlines the key elements of a computer control system using an example of controlling a hot air blower, including monitoring temperature and position sensors, and controlling actuators through software.

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RTS Module 1

The document discusses the history and concepts of real-time computer systems. It describes how real-time computing originated from projects in the 1940s-1950s to develop flight simulators and air defense systems. Modern real-time systems control complex applications like nuclear power stations. The document outlines the key elements of a computer control system using an example of controlling a hot air blower, including monitoring temperature and position sensors, and controlling actuators through software.

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Module -1

Introduction To Real-Time
Systems, Concepts Of
Computer Control.
Aravind R
Assistant professor
Dept. of ECE, GSSSIETW
Historical background
• The origin of the term Real -Time Computing
is unclear.
• First- project whirlwind, a flight simulator
developed by IBM for the U.S. Navy in 1947
Or
• With SAGE, the Semiautomatic Ground
Environment air defense system developed for
the U.S. Air force in the early 1950s
• Modern real-time systems, such as those that
– control Nuclear Power stations
– Military Aircraft weapons systems
– Medical Monitoring Equipment
• These are complex and they exhibit
characteristics of systems developed from the
1940s through the 1960s.
• The earliest proposal to use a computer
operating in real time as part of a control
system was made in a paper by Brown and
Campbell in 1950.
• It shows a computer in both the feedback and
feed forward loops. The diagram is shown
below:
Figure: Computer used in control of plant.
• The first digital Computers developed
specifically for real time control were for
airborne operation
• In 1954 a digitrac digital computer was
successfully used to provide an automatic
flight and weapons control system.
• The application of digital computers to
industrial control began in the late 1950s.
– The first industrial installation of a computer
system was in September 1958.
– When the Louisiana Power and Light Company
installed a Day Storm Computer system for plant
monitoring at their power station in sterling,
Louisiana.
– The first industrial Computer Control installation
was made by the Texaco Company who installed
an RW-300 (Ramo -Wooldridge Company) system
at their Port Arthur refinery in Texas.
– During 1957-8 the Monsanto Chemical Company,
in co-operation with the Ramo-Wooldridge
company, studied the possibility of using
computer control and in October 1958 decided to
implement a scheme on the ammonia plant at
luling, Louisiana.
– The same system was installed by the B.F.
Goodrich Company on their acrylanite plant at
Calvert City, Kentucky, in 1959-60.
– The first direct digital control (DDC) computer
system was the Ferranti Argus 200 system
installed in November 1962 at the ICI ammonia -
soda plant at Fleetwood Lancashire.
• The computers used in the early 1960s
combined magnetic core memories and drum
stores, the drum eventually giving way to hard
disk drives
– General Electric 4000 series,
– IBM 1800, CDC 1700, Foxboro Fox 1 and 1A, the
SDS and Xerox SIGMA Series, Ferranti Argus and
Elliot Automation 900 series
• The increase in the size of the programs
meant that not all the code could be stored in
core memory; provision to be made for the
swapping of code between the drum memory
and core.
• The solution appeared to lie in the
development general purpose real-time
operating systems and high -level languages.
• In the late 1960s real time operating system were
developed and various PROCESS FORTRAN
Compilers made their appearance.
• The problems and the costs involved in
attempting to do everything in one computer led
users to retreat to smaller system for which the
newly developing minicomputer (DEC PDP-8,
PDP-11, Data General Nova, Honey well 316 etc.)
was to prove ideally suited.
Elements of a Computer Control
System
• Let us consider the hot air blower as an
example that illustrates various operations of
a computer control system.
• A centrifugal fan blows air over heating
element and into tube.
• A thermister beed is placed at the outlet end
of the tube and forms one end of the bridge
circuit.
• The amplified o/p of the bridge circut is
available at point B and provides a voltage in
the range 0-10V, proportional to temparature.
• The position of air inlet cover to the fan is
adjusted by means of reversible motor.
• The motor operates at constant speed and it is
turned on and off by a logic signal applied to
the controller, second logic signal determines
the direction of rotation.
• A potentiometer wiper is attached to air inlet
cover and the voltage o\p is proportional to
position of the cover.
• The operator is provided with a panel from which
the control system can be switched from
automatic to manual control.
• In manual mode heat output and fan cover
position can be adjusted using potentiometer.
• Switches are used to operate fan and heater.
• Panel lights indicates- fan on, heater on, cover
fully open, cover fully closed and auto/manual
status.
• The operation of this simple plant using a
computer requires that software to be provided
to support monitoring, control and actuation of
the plant.
A general schematic of the system is shown below.
Monitoring: monitoring involves information
about current sate of the plant.

analog signals- air temperature


fan- inlet cover position
Digital Signals- fan inlet cover position,
status signal:
auto/manual,
fan motor on, heater on.
• Control:

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