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CTR - Computadores y Tiempo Real

Computers and Real-Time Group

Electronics and Computers Department

University of Cantabria (Spain)

Members	Research Activities	Teaching Activities
	Publications	Where to find us

Main contacts of the Group:	Addresses:
José María Drake Moyano - drakej@unican.es	Departamento de Electrónica y Computadores Avda. de los Castros s/n 39005 Santander SPAIN Telephone: +34 942201482 Fax: +34 942201402
Michael González Harbour - mgh@unican.es	Departamento de Matemáticas Estadística y Computación Avda. de los Castros s/n 39005 Santander SPAIN Telephone: +34 942201483 Fax: +34 942201402

Members

Professors

José María Drake Moyano - drakej@unican.es

Michael González Harbour - mgh@unican.es

Associate Professors

Mercedes Granda Miguel - grandam@unican.es

J. Javier Gutiérrez García - gutierjj@unican.es

Elena Mediavilla Bolado - mediavie@unican.es

J. Carlos Palencia Gutiérrez - palencij@unican.es

Mario Aldea Rivas - aldeam@unican.es

Assistant Professors

Julio L. Medina Pasaje - medinajl@unican.es

Patricia López Martínez - lopezpa@unican.es

Laura Barros Bastante - barrosl@unican.es

Héctor Pérez Tijero - perezh@unican.es

Miguel Tellería de Esteban - telleriam NOSPAM AT NOSPAM unican.es

Research Staff

Ángela del Barrio Fernández - delbarrioa@unican.es

César Cuevas Cuesta - cuevasce@unican.es

Álvaro García Cuesta - gcuestaa@unican.es

Daniel Medina Ortega - medinad AT unican.es

María Cue Sampedro - maria.cue@unican.es

Mónica Puig-Pey González - puigpeym@unican.es

Juan M. Rivas Concepción - jrivcon AT gmail.com

Research Assistants

Project Manager Assistant

Visiting Researcher

Former Members

Ola Redell (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden - www.md.kth.se) - ola@md.kth.se (Visiting Researcher)

Yago Pereiro Estevan (Research Staff)

José María Martínez Rodríguez (Research Staff)

Pilar del Río Trueba (Research Staff)

José Luis Mantecón (Research Staff)

Pedro Espeso Martínez (Research Assistant)

Juan López Campos (Research Staff)

Carolina Merino Regaliza (Research Assistant)

José Luis Lorente Aragón (Research Assistant)

Pablo Pacheco Munguía (Research Staff)

Ignacio Robles Urquijo (Project Manager Assistant)

Nicola Serreli - RETIS Lab , Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy (Visiting Researcher)

Daniel Sangorrín López (Research Staff)

Helder Ricardo Oliveira Silva Castro (Research Staff)

Sergio Martín Calvo - sergio.martin.calvo@gmail.com (Research Assistant)

Research Activities

Long Term Projects:

Funded Projects (ongoing):

ARTIST2 funded by IST Programme (European Commision)

RT-MODEL funded by MEC (Spanish Government)

HESPERIA funded by CDTI (Spanish Government)

SPICES (ITEA project)

Funded Projects (finished):

FRESCOR funded by IST Programme (European Commision)

THREAD funded by MEC (Spanish Government)

ARTIST funded by IST Programme (European Commision)

FIRST funded by IST Programme (European Commission)

TRECOM funded by CICYT (Spanish Government)

History of the Group

Since 1987 this group has been working in basic and applied research in the area of real-time technology, and its application to the development of real-time systems for industrial controllers, robots, and intelligent instrumentation. The group has developed techniques for the schedulability analysis of embedded distributed systems with real-time requirements. The focus is on systems that are scheduled using fixed priorities, like those based on POSIX operating systems or those developed in the Ada programming language. The techniques developed represent extensions and enhancements to Rate Monotonic Analysis techniques.

The Group has also developed methodologies and tools for software engineering of real-time systems in which a mixture of soft and hard deadlines can be found. The tool that is currently being developed, called MAST, allows the design of a real-time system using a UML tool, modeling its real-time performance, and making the schedulability analysis automatically from the UML description.

The group is also actively participating in the development of the Real-time POSIX operating systems standards. The goal of this participation is to ensure that the standard supports those services that are required for the development of real-time systems with hard deadlines, based upon the results of current scheduling theory. As a result of this participation, several of the chapters of the latest real-time POSIX standards have been authored by members of the group. The group is currently developing a hard real-time kernel, called MaRTE OS , that is compliant with the POSIX minimum real-time system profile.

One important goal of the Group has always been to test the results of basic research in practical applications. As a consequence, the Group has participated since 1987 in industrial projects with Equipos Nucleares S.A. and Electra de Viesgo S.A.

In the projects with Equipos Nucleares, the Group has developed controllers for special robots, designed to automate maintenance operations inside nuclear power stations, as well as automate the manufacturing of parts for nuclear power stations. A total of six robot controllers have been successfully developed under these projects.
With Electra de Viesgo S.A., the collaboration projects also started in 1987. The group's work has been the design and implementation of real-time distributed system for the supervision and control of networks for transportation and generation of electric power. The systems developed in these projects are currently in operation in some of the northern regions of Spain, and installation in other adjacent regions is planned.