Model-Driven Development in Real-Time Embedded Control Systems: A Case Study

The recent and rapid advances in hardware have led to an explosion of real-time and concurrent applications, especially real-time control system applications. This, in turn, requires practical software development with new technologies such as Object- Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), Model-Driven Development (MDD) with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as the principle modeling language. In this paper, we apply the Rapid Object- Oriented Process (ROPES), to analyze and design a house alarm system. The case study spans all the typical software development phases, from requirement analysis, analysis, to design. Our modeling experience demonstrated that ROPES is an appropriate approach for the analysis and design of real-time and concurrent control systems.