Seminar by a Prof. Partha Roop on modelling of biological and other systems on chip

"A synchronous rendering of hybrid systems for designing Plant-on-a-Chip (PoC)"

Professor Partha Roop from the University of Auckland, New Zealand will give a seminar

A synchronous rendering of hybrid systems for designing Plant-on-a-Chip (PoC)
 

Abstract: Hybrid systems combine discrete controllers with adjoining physical processes (plants). While many approaches exist for simulating hybrid systems, there are few approaches for their systematic emulation, especially when the actual physical plant is not available. Emulation is essential for closed-loop, real-time, validation of black-box controllers so as to aid their certification. This seminar proposes formal framework for systematic emulation of black-box controllers using real-time implementations of the plant, called a plant-on-a-chip (PoC). Here, real-time refers to the fact that the sample time of the plant must match that of the controller. The seminar formulates a software engineering solution to the problem and presents some recent results of comparison of the proposed methods with Simulink  to show that our method is superior in both execution time and code size. Our approach to the PoC problem paves the way for the emulation of physical plants in diverse domains such as robotics, automation, medical devices, and intelligent transportation systems.

Bio: Partha Roop is an Associate Professor of Computer Systems Engineering in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests are: Real-Time Systems, Executable Biology, Medical Devices, Industrial Informatics, and Embedded Systems. Partha is an Associate Editor of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters and Springer / Eurasip journal on embedded systems. Partha received Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers (2009) and Mercator Professorship from the German Research Council, DFG (2016).