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MARC Seminar Series 05
Date and Time: November 6, 09:00-11:30 (CET).
Location: Hybrid. Room: Kappa, Mälardalen University, Västerås Campus
Agenda:
09:00-10:00, Prof. Thilo Sauter, "Safety and Security in Industrial Automation – The Need for a Holistic View"
10:00-10:30, Break (Coffee @ Java, IDT)
10:30-11:30, Prof. Luis Almeida, "Flexibility as an Essential Requirement Real-Time Embedded Systems"
Seminar 1: Safety and Security in Industrial Automation – The Need for a Holistic View
Time: 09:00-10:00 (CET)
Seminar Abstract
For more than hundred years, safety has been a key criterion for the conception, installation, and commissioning of industrial plants. The necessary protection of operators and machines has led to the development of many standards and regulations, as well as procedures to assess safety and identify potential risks. Conversely, security, i.e., the protection of data, is a relatively new topic. It has gained importance when control networks were introduced in automation and when those originally closed networks were connected with the outside world, and even more so lately with concepts like Industry 4.0 and the penetration of IoT and generally IT into the classical automation environment, which today is also termed operational technology (OT). In such scenarios, security threats can no longer be ignored and may evolve into serious safety problems. Unfortunately, safety and security goals and measures are sometimes contradictory, as are operation principles for OT and IT. In modern automation systems, an isolated, individual view on both safety and security is therefore no longer appropriate, and a holistic approach is needed. The seminar will review the background of this idea and report on work done in the #SafeSecLab, a joint research initiative of TU Wien and TUEV Austria.
Speaker
Thilo Sauter received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from TU Wien, Vienna, Austria. He is professor of automation technology at TU Wien and Head of the Institute of Computer Technology, and was the founding director of the Department for Integrated Sensor Systems at the University of Continuing Education Krems, Wiener Neustadt, Austria. His expertise and research interests include embedded systems and integrated circuit design, smart sensors, and automation and sensor networks with a focus on real-time, security, interconnection, and integration issues relevant to cyberphysical systems and the Internet of Things in various application domains such as industrial and building automation, smart manufacturing, or smart grids.
Seminar 2: Flexibility as an Essential Requirement Real-Time Embedded Systems
Time: 10:30-11:30 (CET)
Seminar Abstract
Recent growing frameworks such as the IoT, IIoT, Cloud/Fog/Edge computing, CPS, etc, have enabled new real-time applications, creating new challenges. From smart cities to health monitoring, intelligent transportation, autonomous vehicles, Industry 4.0, etc, all rely on complex services provided by complex distributed platforms. However, as opposed to classical real-time applications that were statically deployed at system boot time on known platforms, contemporary applications demand dynamic service management over dynamic platforms, while meeting all timing requirements. This is a significant challenge that requires operational flexibility from the node level to the network and system-wide levels.
In this seminar, we will track the evolution of flexibility in systems design, from manufacturing to embedded systems. We will discuss the implications of introducing operational flexibility, its architectural requirement,s and existing flexibility frameworks for real-time embedded systems. We will end with a look at some ongoing efforts in these directions.
Speaker
Luis Almeida graduated from the University of Aveiro in Portugal and is currently Full Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, where he is the Director of the Doctoral Program on Electrical and Computer Engineering and coordinates the Distributed and Real-time Embedded Systems laboratory (DaRTES).
He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Real-Time Systems Journal, Associate Editor of the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture and Chair of EMSIG - the EDAA Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems. He was Vice-Director of the CISTER Research Center on Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems (2018-2025) and Chair of TCRTS - the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (2020-2021). He was also Trustee of the RoboCup Federation from 2008 to 2016 and Vice-President from 2011 to 2013. He participated in numerous funded national and international research projects, and regularly participates in the organizing of scientific events in real-time communications for distributed industrial/embedded systems, for teams of cooperating agents and for the Internet-of-Things.