The open real-time control (RTC)-Tools software framework for modeling RTC in water resources sytems

RTC 10 v3

Once relegated to mundane roles as glue logic—linking the CPUs, memory and I/O in computerbased systems—field-programmable gate arrays are moving into prime time. Today’s leading FPGA products boast multi-million gate counts, I/O pins in the high hundreds and true system chip-level functionality including embedded CPUs. As they continue to bulk up in all these directions, they’re evolving into ...

RTC: a distributed realtime control system toolkit

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JF’L) has built several optical interferometers using a common software framework developed for this purpose. The heart of this framework is the Realtime Control (RTC) software product. RTC has evolved from its initial implementation to include a powerful dynamic configuration capability and to use Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) technology for c...

RTC-method for the control of nuclear reactor power

In this paper, a new concept of the Reactivity Trace Curve (RTC) for reactor power control is presented. The concept is demonstrated for a reactor model with one group of delayed neutrons, where the reactivity trace curve is simply a closed form exponential solution of the RTC-differential equation identifier. An extended reactor model of multigroup (six groups) of delayed neutrons is discussed...

Mobile Robot Rough-terrain Control (rtc) for Planetary Exploration

Mobile robots are increasingly being developed for highrisk missions in rough terrain situations, such as planetary exploration. Here a rough-terrain control (RTC) methodology is presented that exploits the actuator redundancy found in multi-wheeled mobile robot systems to improve ground traction and reduce power consumption. The methodology “chooses” an optimization criterion based on the loca...

Communication Genres for Dispersed Real-Time Collaboration (RTC): The Role of Presence and Awareness