Keynote addresses: Keynote address I: Interaction between computer control design and its implementation

Traditionally, real-time computer experts and control designers work separately. The first deal with the control code without paying much attention to the impact of the code execution in the control performance whereas the control engineers conceive the control algorithms based on the required performance and the process knowledge, regardless their subsequent implementation. But they are interlaced and both designs should be jointly treated, mainly if the control tasks share resources with some other activities and these resources are limited. In this talk, the real-time control design and implementation will be reviewed from both perspectives. Some key concepts interacting with both issues, the control performance and the control implementation, such as the control effort or the control kernel are emphasized and some general directions in the co-design are summarized.