Complex Real-Time Embedded Systems

Focus:

We focus on execution and analysis of real-time systems, with a particular focus on multiprocessor scheduling techniques, synchronization protocols, predictable execution of real-time systems, compositional theory and technology, and similar topics related to predictability of real-time systems. We also work with communication protocols and architectures based on Switched Ethernet. The most recent research direction is cloud and industrial Internet of Things (IoT). In summary: timing, execution, analysis and modeling of complex embedded real-time systems.


We conduct research in the following areas

  • Multiprocessor scheduling and synchronization
  • Predictable execution of real-time systems
  • Source code analysis for industrial embedded software
  • Simulation-based analysis of complex embedded systems
  • Stochastic and statistical analysis of real-time systems
  • Real-time communications
  • Adaptive and reconfigurable real-time systems
  • Compositional execution and analysis of real-time systems
  • Cloud and the Industrial Internet of Things
Project TitleStatus
PROVIDENT: Predictable Software Development in Connected Vehicles Utilising Blended TSN-5G Networks active
ARRAY ++, Automation Region Research Academy active
ARRAY - Automation Region Research Academy active
Cloud and the Industrial Internet of Things Initiative active
Collaborative Cloud Robotics active
FIESTA - Federated Choreography of an Integrated Embedded Systems Software Architecture active
FLEXATION - Flexible and Secure Modular Automation active
MARC: Mälardalen University Automation Research Center active
MRTV - Mälardalen Real-Time Virtualizer active
PSI: Pervasive Self-Optimizing Computing Infrastructures active
ROBOREC: Semi-automated Dismantling System for Battery Metal Recovery and Recycling active
SUNRISE - Strategic Universities Network for Regional Innovative and Sustainable Evolution active
TRIM: TRustworthy Interaction of Multi-agent systems active
ACICS - Assured Cloud Platforms for Industrial Cyber-physical Systems finished
ARROWS - Design Techniques for Adaptive Embedded Systems finished
AUTOSAR for Multi-Core in Automotive and Automation Industries finished
DESTINE: Developing Predictable Vehicle Software Utilizing Time Sensitive Networking finished
DPAC - Dependable Platforms for Autonomous systems and Control finished
FuturAS: Future Generation Automation Systems finished
Future factories in the Cloud finished
HERO: Heterogeneous systems - software-hardware integration finished
HISCORE - Hierarchical Scheduling of Complex Real-Time Embedded Systems finished
PARIS - Practical Probabilistic Timing Analysis of Real-Time Systems finished
PPMsched - Performance Preserving Multicore Scheduling finished
PREMISE - Predictable Multicore Systems finished
PRESS - Predictable Embedded Software Systems finished
PreView: Developing Predictable Vehicle Software on Multi-core finished
RetNet - The European Industrial Doctorate Programme on Future Real-Time Networks finished
RV-REDS - Resource Virtualization for Real-Time Embedded Distributed Systems finished
SACSys - Safe and Secure Adaptive Collaborative Systems finished
SeCRA - Security Case Run-Time Adaptation finished
SMARTCore: Model-driven support for deployment optimization of embedded systems on multicore finished
Sprint 10 Project: SLA-IoT--Ensuring Quality of Service through Modeling of Service-level Agreements in Industrial IoT finished
Sprint 11 Project: SLA-IoT--Ensuring Quality of Service through Modeling of Service-level Agreements in Industrial IoT finished
Sprint 12 Project: SLA-IoT--Ensuring Quality of Service through Modeling of Service-level Agreements in Industrial IoT finished
Sprint 13 Project: SLA-IoT - Ensuring Quality of Service through Modeling of Service-level Agreements in Industrial IoT finished
START - Stochastic Real-Time Analysis of Embedded Software Systems finished
SYNOPSIS - Safety Analysis for Predictable Software Intensive Systems finished

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A Field-based Approach for Runtime Replanning in Swarm Robotics Missions (Sep 2025)
Gianluca Aguzzi , Martina Baiardi , Angela Cortecchia , Branko Miloradovic, Alessandro Papadopoulos, Danilo Pianini , Mirko Viroli
6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) (ACSOS 2025)

A Study of On-Device Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task Offloading under Dynamic 5G Channel Conditions (Sep 2025)
Gorka Nieto , Idoia de la Iglesia , Unai LOPEZ , Cristina Perfecto , Mohammad Ashjaei, Ali Balador
International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (ETFA'25)

A Methodology to Map Industrial Automation Traffic to TSN Traffic Classes (Sep 2025)
Kasra Ekrad, Inés Álvarez , Bjarne Johansson, Saad Mubeen, Mohammad Ashjaei
30th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2025)

CONAN-TSN: An Integrated Toolchain for CONfiguration and ANalysis of TSN Networks (Sep 2025)
Daniel Bujosa Mateu, Mohammad Ashjaei, Saad Mubeen
30th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2025)

Stochastic Scheduling for Human-Robot Collaboration in Dynamic Manufacturing Environments (Aug 2025)
Anders Lager, Branko Miloradovic, Giacomo Spampinato , Thomas Nolte, Alessandro Papadopoulos
34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025)

A Formal Definition of the Multi-Robot Multi-Task Time-extended Assignment Problem Configuration (Aug 2025)
Branko Miloradovic, Alessandro Papadopoulos
IEEE 21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2025)


Alessandro Papadopoulos, Professor

Room: U1-131
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Thomas Nolte, Professor

Room: U3-068
Phone: +46-21-103178