Towards Resilient Computing on ROS for Embedded Applications

Jean-Charles Fabre (1) , Michaël Lauer (1) , Matthieu Roy (1) , Matthieu Amy (1) , William Excoffon (1) , Miruna Stoicescu (1)

1 LAAS-TSF - Équipe Tolérance aux fautes et Sûreté de Fonctionnement informatique

Systems are expected to evolve during their service life in order to cope with changes of various natures, ranging from fluctuations in available resources to additional features requested by users. For dependable embedded systems, the challenge is even greater, as evolution must not impair dependability attributes. Resilient computing implies maintaining dependability properties when facing changes. Resilience encompasses several aspects, among which evolvability, i.e., the capacity of a system to evolve during its service life. In this paper, we discuss the evolution of systems with respect to their dependability mechanisms, and show how such mechanisms can evolve accordingly. From a component-based approach that enables to clarify the concepts, the process and the techniques to be used to address resilient computing, in particular regarding the adaptation of fault tolerance (or safety) mechanisms, we show how Adaptive Fault Tolerance (AFT) can be implemented with ROS. Beyond some implementation details given in the paper, we draw the lessons learned from this work and discus the limits of this runtime support to implement such resilient computing features in embedded systems.

Domaines: Systèmes embarqués

Jean-Charles Fabre, Michaël Lauer, Matthieu Roy, Matthieu Amy, William Excoffon, et al.. Towards Resilient Computing on ROS for Embedded Applications. 8th European Congress on Embedded Real Time Software and Systems (ERTS 2016), Jan 2016, TOULOUSE, France. ⟨hal-01292318⟩