Authors

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Alessandro Macchelli
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Laboratorio di Automazione e Robotica, University of Bologna
Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna
ITALY
Alessandro Macchelli was born in Bologna on the 1st of Genuary 1975. He took his Laurea Degree cum laude at the University of Bologna on the 16th of February 2000, with a sperimental master thesis, developed at L.A.R., the Laboratory of Automation and Robotics in the field of the VIDET Project (see: http://www-lar.deis.unibo.it/activities/videt/), titled Control of a Robotic Interface for the Interaction with Virtual Reality. On December 2000, he took the professional degree. On May 2000, he began his PhD (XV cycle) and so his research activity within D.E.I.S. under the supervision of prof. Claudio Melchiorri. His research activity is in the field of robotics and control in general, from both a pratical and theorical point of view. After the laurea degree, he continued to work on haptic interfaces within the VIDET Project and on real-time operating systems, in particular RTAI-Linux and QNX. With the foundamental help of some under-graduated student, he implemented some algorithms using real-time linux for the control of electrical motors and industrial manipulators, Comau SMART 3-S in particular. From a more theorical point of view, he is interested in the passive control of dynamical systems, in particular using the Port Controlled Hamiltonian System (PCHS) approach, in the control of system with delay and in the sliding-mode control of dynamical systems.

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Ana García-Fornes
Department of Information Systems and Computation, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia
SPAIN
Ana García-Fornes received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Valencia, Spain, in 1996. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Valencia. Her research interests are focussed on Real-Time Systems Scheduling, Operating Systems and Real-Time Knowledge-Based Systems.

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Andrea Cuomo
Advanced System Technology STMicroelectronics
ITALY

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Andrés Terrasa
Department of Information Systems and Computation, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia
SPAIN
Andrés Terrasa received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Valencia in 2001. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Valencia. His research interests mainly include Real-Time Systems Scheduling, Real-Time Operating Systems, and Real-Time Artificial Intelligence.

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Arne Linder
Electrical Machines and Drives, Wuppertal University
Fuhlrottstr. 10, D-42097 Wuppertal
GERMANY
Arne Linder was born 1968 in Solingen, Germany. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Wuppertal University in 1996. Since 1996 he is working with the Chair for Electrical Machines and Drives at Wuppertal University. His research interests are power electronics and control of inverter driven AC-machines, especially predictive control.

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Bernd Gassmann
Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universitaet Krlsruhe (FZI)
Haid und Neu Str. 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe
GERMANY

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Bernhard Kuhn
Lineo Inc.
AM Westpark 3, D-81373 Munich
GERMANY

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Bill Weinberg
MontaVista Software Inc.
1237 East Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94085
USA

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Calin Culianu
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
520 E 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
USA
Calin Culianu is a Software Analyst in the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY. Calin received a B.S. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research interests include operating systems, real time systems, programming language semantics, distributed algorithms, formal specifications, verification, theory of concurrency, and computational biology.

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Claes Lundholm
MontaVista Software Inc.
1237 East Arques Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94085
USA
Claes Lundholm, Technical Marketing Manager at MontaVista Software, has over 10 years of experience in the embedded industry with Real Time systems. After University studies for a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering he started his career at ABB Industrial Systems, Sweden, in 1993 where he served as S/W Development Engineer on Real Time Operating Systems and Manager for their Fieldbus and Communication department. From 1997 to 2000, he was with Wind River Systems, Sweden, where he served as Sr. Field Application Engineer and Business Development Manager for Industrial Measurement and Control. Claes Lundholm joined MontaVista Software in January 2001.

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Claudio Melchiorri
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Laboratorio di Automazione e Robotica, University of Bologna
Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna
ITALY

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David Christini
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
520 E 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
USA
David Christini is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and an Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY. David received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. His research interests include analysis and modeling of cardiac arrhythmias, arrhythmia control, biologically-based biosensors, nonlinear dynamics, complexity, and time series analysis.

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Dietrich Pescoller
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Laboratorio di Automazione e Robotica, University of Bologna
Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna
ITALY

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Emanuele Bianchi
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Milano
Via La Masa, 34 20156 Milano
ITALY

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Emanuele Gorini
RETIS-Lab / Scuola Superiore S.Anna
Via Carducci, 40 Pisa
ITALY

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Franco Blanes
Department of Information Systems and Computation, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia
SPAIN

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Frank Mehnert
Department of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology
D-01062 Dresden
GERMANY
Frank Mehnert was born in 1971 in Altdöbern, 40mi south of Berlin, Germany. From 1992 to 1998 he studied Computer Science at Dresden Universtiy of Technology, Germany. His diploma thesis was about the design and implementation of a real-time SCSI subsystem for the Dresden Real-Time Operating System (DROPS). From 1998 to 1999 he worked as a research assistent at Dresden Universtiy of Technology, at the Department of Transportation Sciences. There he took part on a joint venture project with Bosch on car navigation. Since 1999 he is PhD student at Dresden University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Operating Systems Group. My research interests are real-time, microkernels and Linux.

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Fred Proctor
Control Systems Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8230, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8230
USA
Frederick M. Proctor is the Group Leader of the Control Systems group at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, and an M.S. in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include real-time operating systems, digital control, motion control, and modeling and simulation. He also participates in standards activities for machine tools, robots, and coordinate measuring machines. He is the developer of the Enhanced Machine Controller, an open-source real-time Linux controller for machine tools and robots.

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Gines Benet
Department of Computer Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
14 Cami de Vera, Valencia E-46071
SPAIN

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Giuseppe Lipari
RETIS-Lab / Scuola Superiore S.Anna
Via Carducci, 40 Pisa
ITALY
Giuseppe Lipari is Assistant professor of Computer Engineering at the Scuola Superiore S.Anna. He graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Pisa in 1996 and received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Scuola Superiore S.Anna in 2000. During 1999 he was a visiting student at the University of Vermont and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working with Prof. S. Baruah and Prof. K. Jeffay on novel scheduling algorithms for Resource Reservation on Real-Time systems. His main research interests include real-time operating systems, scheduling algorithm for soft real-time systems, component-based real-time kernels for embedded systems.

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Giuseppe Quaranta
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Milano
Via La Masa, 34 20156 Milano
ITALY
Giuseppe Quaranta graduated in Aerospace Engineering in April 2000 at the Aerospace school of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, with a thesis on "Parallel algorithms for multibody codes applied to the study of complex aerospace applications". Some results of this research have been presented at the European Rotorcraft Forum of 2000 held in The Hauge, The Netherlands. In March 2001 he won a scholarship financed by Augusta S.p.A., to attend a Ph.D. at the Aerospace Department of the Politecnico di Milano regarding the coupled aerodynamic and structural dynamic simulation of rotorcraft behavior. The presented paper is the result of an assignment for the Advanced Control Systems class that I attended during my first semester at Ph.D.school.

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Giuseppe Renoldi
(free lancer)
(na)
ITALY
Giuseppe Renoldi worked on software and hardware develpment since 1979. Graduated in Electronic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano on 1990, IEEE member since 1994. Now working as a free lance, his main job interests and works have been the design of automated production system and machines.

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Herman Bruyninckx
Dept Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Celestijnenlaan 300B, 3001 Leuven
BELGIUM
Herman Bruyninckx is assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he obtained Masters degrees in Computer science, and in Mechatronics, and a PhD in Applied Sciences in 1995. He teaches robotics and real-time systems courses in the Mechatronics division. His research is in autonomous robots. He recently started Orocos, an open source software project for robot control, www.orocos.org.

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Hermann Hartig
Department of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology
D-01062 Dresden
GERMANY

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Ignacio Paches
Department of Information Systems and Computation, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia
SPAIN

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Ismael Ripoll
Department of Computer Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
14 Cami de Vera, Valencia E-46071
SPAIN
Ismael Ripoll is currently professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia since 1994. Received the Phd. degree in Computer Science from the same university (1996). PhD thesis was on Real-Time dynamic scheduling algoritms. Current research interests are Real-Time scheduling, RTLinux and Linux security.

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Ivan Ganev
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332
USA
Ivan Ganev is a PhD student at the Georgia Insitute of Technology. He is a member of the Systems Group and his advisor is Prof Karsten Schwan. Ivan's interests range over topics in operating systems, real-time and distributed systems, as well as high-performance computing, quality-of-service and scalability issues.

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Jan-Christian Albiez
Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universitaet Krlsruhe (FZI)
Haid und Neu Str. 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe
GERMANY

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Jose Simo
Department of Information Systems and Computation, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia
SPAIN

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Joshua McKinney
Computer Science Department, Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
Joshua T. McKinney, a graduate student in the Computer Science Department at Appalachian State University, plans to receive a MS in Computer Science in December of 2001 with his thesis focusing on real-time systems. He received a BS from Wake Forest University in May of 1995. Joshua plans on teaching at Appalachian State University until May of 2002 at which point he will pursue a job in industry.

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Josep Vidal
Department of Computer Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
14 Cami de Vera, Valencia E-46071
SPAIN
Josep Vidal is a Ph.D. student at the Politechnical University of Valencia, Spain. He graduated in Compute Science at the Politechnical University of Valencia in 2001. His main research interests include real-time operating systems, RTLinux, MARTE OS, embedded systems and real-time control.

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Juan Vila
Department of Computer Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
14 Cami de Vera, Valencia E-46071
SPAIN

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Karsten Schwan
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332
USA
Karsten Schwan is a professor in the Systems Research Group of the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. His group conducts experimental research targeting high performance, real-time, and ubiquitous applications. Research topics include dynamic program adaptation; online program monitoring, tuning, and steering; task and message scheduling; basic mechanisms and policies for quality management in operating and communication systems; middleware; and software tools.

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Kay-Ulrich Scholl
Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universitaet Krlsruhe (FZI)
Haid und Neu Str. 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe
GERMANY

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Kenneth Jacker
Computer Science Department, Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
Kenneth H. Jacker is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Appalachian State University. After receiving degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University, he worked as a real-time developer and consultant at the Space Sciences Laboratory, Computer Sciences Corporation, Rockwell International, and Yourdon, Inc. before joining Appalachian State in 1981.

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Klaas Gadeyne
Dept Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Celestijnenlaan 300B, 3001 Leuven
BELGIUM

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Lorenzo Dozio
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Milano
Via La Masa, 34 20156 Milano
ITALY

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Luca Abeni
ReTiS Lab, Scuola Superiore S. Anna
Via Carducci, 40 Pisa
ITALY
Luca Abeni is a PhD student in computer engineering at ReTiS Lab, Scuola S. Anna, Pisa (Italy). He graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Pisa in 1998. Luca's research is focused on making real-time techniques usable on desktop operating systems. Moreover, he is interested inreal-time and multimedia systems in general, with particular attention to OS support for QoS, resource reservations in dynamic systems, and adaptive scheduling techniques for coping with unknown or widely variable execution times. During his PhD, he worked on the HARTIK kernel (a small real-time kernel developed in ReTiS Lab) and on Linux/RK (a real-time extension to linux supporting resource reservations).

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Marco Caccamo
ReTiS Lab, Scuola Superiore S. Anna
Via Carducci, 40 Pisa
ITALY

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Mario de Sousa
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-465 Porto
PORTUGAL

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Mario Taschwer
FSMLabs Austria

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Michael Barabanov
FSMLabs

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Michael Hohmuth
Department of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology
D-01062 Dresden
GERMANY

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Nicholas McGuire
FSMLabs Austria
Aignergasse 10, A-2020 Hollabrunn
AUSTRIA
Nicholas McGuire is real-time and embedded system developper for FSMLabs in Hollabrunn, FSMLabs' Austrian office. Previously, he was system administrator of a AlphaAXP cluster at the Department for High performace Computing, Institute of experimental Physics at the Vienna University. Prior to that, he was software developer for DSP controlled active magnetic bearings at the Insitute for Machine Dynamics and Measurement at the Vienna University of Technology. During this time his work on Linux started, in particular by writing an X-server for visually handicept people. Nicholas McGuire is the first Der Herr Hofrat.

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Paolo Mantegazza
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Milano
Via La Masa, 34 20156 Milano
ITALY

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Pascual Perez
Department of Computer Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
14 Cami de Vera, Valencia E-46071
SPAIN
Pascual Pérez received the M.S. (1998) degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. Since 1998, he has taught computer technology at Facultad de Informática . He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departamento de Informática de Sistemas y Computadores at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. His research interests include: real-time robot control, embedded systems and field-bus networks.

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Patricia Balbastre
Department of Computer Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
14 Cami de Vera, Valencia E-46071
SPAIN
Patricia Balbastre is an assistant professor of Computer Engineering, as well as a Ph.D. student at the Politechnical University of Valencia, Spain. She graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Politechnical University of Valencia in 1998. Her main research interests include real-time operating systems, dynamic scheduling algorithms and real-time control.

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Pau Mendoza
Department of Computer Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
14 Cami de Vera, Valencia E-46071
SPAIN
Pau Mendoza is a Ph.D. student at the Politechnical Universityof Valencia, Spain. He graduated in Compute Science at the Politechnical University of Valencia in 1999. His main research interestsinclude real-time operating systems, RTLinux, embedded systems and real-time control.

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Peter Wurmsdobler
Control.com
134 Flanders Road, Westborough MA 01581
USA
Peter Wurmsdobler has a PhD in Control Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Previous work involved development of a bearing concept for fluid blood pumps based on magnetic suspension and development of fuzzy logic for building control. At the Centre de Transfert des Microtechniques, France, Wurmsdobler developed a real-time LINUX-based torque testing stage. Now Peter Wurmsdobler is direcxotr of Control.com's open control Lab and is in charge of the development of open control systems.

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Philip Daly
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Tucson, Arizona
USA

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Philippe Gerum
IDEALX S.A.S. - OSS Engineering
15-17 avenue de Segur, Paris
FRANCE

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Pieter De Troyer
Dept Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Celestijnenlaan 300B, 3001 Leuven
BELGIUM

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Prabhat Ranjan
SST Operation and Control Group, Institute for Plasma Research
Bhat Village, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
INDIA

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Qing Guo Zhou
Network Center, Lanzhou University
Tianshui Road 298, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730000
P.R.China
Zhou is a graduate student of depatment of physics, Lanzhou University and his study is mainly on the develpoment and appliaction of the real-time and embedded OS. And he got his bechelor degree from the same deprtment in 1996. He was ever an assitant (teaching computer language) of physics department of Lanzhou University in 1996-1998. Now he also was an engineer of the deepening computing group of the network center, Lanzhou University, with responsibility for the distributed computing and parallel computing.

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Richard West
Computer Science Department, Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
USA
Richard West is currently an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at Boston University. His areas of interest include operating systems, real-time systems, QoS management and distributed computing. He received both MS (1998) and PhD (2000) degrees in computer science, from Georgia Tech. Further details can be found at: http://www.cs.bu.edu/fac/richwest/.

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Rick Jafrate
Mitek Corporation
214 W. 6th Avenue, Suite 107, Spokane, WA 99204
USA
Richard Jafrate, who holds an MSEE degree from West Virginia University, worked as a lead designer of industrial automation systems for the General Electric Company form 1980 to 1988. In 1988 he joined the Mitek Corporation, a consulting firm specializing in industrial automation systems. Mr. Jafrate has designed and implemented automation systems for clients all over the world. He was also one of the developer's of General Electric's Directomatic 2000 automation platform and more recently Kaiser Aluminum's KCS control system platform. The Mitek Corporation is a small consulting firm, headquartered in St. Petersburg FL. Mitek provides automaton solutions for major industrial clients such as Alcoa, U.S. Steel, Solmer Steel, as General Electric and Cegelec, to name a few. Mitek has expertise in the design and implementation of automation applications as well as development tools and infrastructure for automation systems.

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Rafael Martinez
Department of Information Systems and Computation, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia
SPAIN

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Satoshi Kagami
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
2-41-6, Oumi, Kouto-ku, Tokyo, 113-0064
JAPAN

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Sebastian Schonberg
Department of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology
D-01062 Dresden
GERMANY

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Todd Gearheart
Flight Safety International
Flushing, NY 11371-1061
USA

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Thomas Leibner
Technical Univ. of Ilmenau & Aachen Univ.
Juelich
GERMANY

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Tomasz Motylewski
BFAD GmbH & Co. KG
Carl-Benz Str. 19, 78224 Singen
GERMANY
Tomasz Motylewski was born 27.06.1971 in Wroclaw, Poland. Graduated in chemistry (1995) and in physics (1996) at the Jagiellonian University. Since 1997 until end of 2000 working at the prof. J.P. Maier group, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Basel doing research in laser spectroscopy of carbon clusters. Since 2001 working as embedded Linux engineer in BFAD GmbH & Co. KG in Singen (Germany). Maintainer of mbuff (kernel - user space shared memory driver).

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Victor Yodaiken
FSMLabs
Socorro, NM 87801
USA

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Wenzhong Wu
Network Center, Lanzhou University
Tianshui Road 298, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730000
P.R.China

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Yue Ma
Department of Physics, Lanzhou University
Tianshui Road 298, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730000
P.R.China

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Yvonne Wagner
EMCO Maier GmbH
Salzachtal Bundesstraße Nord 58, A-5400 Hallein
AUSTRIA
Yvonne Wagner studied mathematics with computer science at the Institute of Technology Munich; She got her PhD at the Institute of Technology Darmstadt in the field Scientific Computing (modelling and numerical simulation of heat exchangers, hyperbolic partial differential equations). Since May 2000 she works in the software group of EMCO where she for the first time came into contact with real time, six months later with RTLinux.