Rapid prototyping of transition management code for reconfigurable control systems

This paper presents a rapid prototyping technique that focuses on transition management in hybrid systems. In particular, it integrates hybrid modeling and simulation (for specifying and validating transition strategies) with a generic transition management pattern built on a Real-Time CORBA-based platform for reconfigurable control systems. Code generation is performed from the hybrid models to transition management code. This allows hybrid systems and their reconfiguration strategies to be prototyped and validated at an early stage in development and for the strategies to be directly transferred into the control system software without a separate, manual reimplementation step. The application of this work is found in most complex control systems, including the control of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAVs) performing extreme maneuvers, which is our driving application area.