ARCOS - Architecture for Control and Supervision

The ARCOS Project is an ongoing academic effort aimed at the construction of a highly configurable and open software platform devoted to the development of  industrial supervision and control applications. The research is carried out in the Distributed System Laboratory (www.lasid.ufba.br) in the context of the Post-Graduation Program on Mechatronics at UFBA (www.mecatronica.ufba.br).

The ARCOS project is based on the concepts of real-time components, vertical frameworks, and open standards.

The research effort involves the definition of the basic framework, application management and  assembly tools, demonstration applications, support for dependability (failure detection, group communication, and active replication), and support for static and dynamic adaptation, among other features.

The work force of the project counts on the work of several Master students of the Post-Graduation Program on Mechatronics, and a few research grants, from CAPES and Fapesb.

ARCOS Research Team

• Prof. Raimundo Macêdo (Research Coordenador)

• Sandro Andrade, MSc. (Research Assistant and System Architect, LaSiD/UFBA)

• Alírio Sá (Computer Science. Ph.D. Student)

• Neima Santos (Mechatronics. Master Student)

• Geovane Santangelo (Mechatronics. Master Student)

• Rafael Miranda (Mechatronics. Master Student)

• Ricardo Perrone (Mechatronics. Master Student)

More information about the research can be obtained in http://arcos.sf.net

Or in the list of publications below

ANDRADE, Sandro; MACÊDO, Raimundo José de Araújo. A Component-Based Real-Time Architecture

for Distributed Supervision and Control Applications. In: 10TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND FACTORY AUTOMATION, 2005, Catania. Proceedings of the

ETFA 2005. New York: IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005. v. 1, p. 15-22.

ANDRADE, Sandro Santos; MACÊDO, Raimundo José de Araújo. Using Real-Time Components to

Construct Supervision and Control Applications. In: 8TH BRAZILIAN WORKSHOP ON REAL-TIME SYSTEMS,

2006, Curitiba. Proceedings of the WTR 2006. Curitiba: SBC, 2006. (accepted for publication, working-in-progress track)

ANDRADE, Sandro; MACÊDO, Raimundo José de Araújo; SÁ, Alírio Santos de. ARCOS: A

Component-Based Architecture for the Construction of Robust Control and Supervision Applicatrions. In:

WDAS - LATIN-AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON DEPENDABLE AUTOMATION SYSTEM - CO-LOCATED

WITH THE SECOND LATIN-AMERICAM SYMPOSIUM ON DEPENDABLE COMPUTING, 2005,

Salvador. WDAS - Latin-American Workshop on Dependable Automation System Proceedings. Salvador:

SBC/LADC2005, 2005. p. 11-16

SÁ, Alírio Santos de; MACÊDO, Raimundo José de Araújo. An Adaptive Failure Detection Approach for

Real-time Ddistributed Control Systems over Shared In: INTERNATIONAL

CONGRESS ON MECHANICAL ENGENNIERING - MECHATRONICS SYMPOSIUM, 2005, Ouro Preto.

Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Mechanical Engeneering. ABCM - Associação

Brasileira de Engenharias e Ciências Mecânicas, 2005. v. 1, p. 1-8.

SÁ, Alírio Santos de; MACÊDO, Raimundo José de Araújo. Avaliando o Impacto de Detectores de

Defeitos na Estabilidade de Sistemas de Controle de Tempo Real sobre Redes Convencionais. In: WTF

2006 - VII WORKSHOP DE TESTES E TOLERÂNCIA A FALHAS, 2006, Curitiba. Anais do WTF 2006.

Curitiba: SBC, 2006. (accepted for publication, 12 pages)

SÁ, Alírio Santos de; MACÊDO, Raimundo José de Araújo. Detectores de Defeitos Adaptáveis para

Sistemas de Controle Distribuídos de Tempo-Real sobre Redes Ethernet. In: VII BRAZILIAN

WORKSHOP OF REAL-TIME SYSTEMS, 2005, Fortaleza. Proceedings of the VII Brazilian Workshop of

Real-Time Systems. Fortaleza: SBC/LARC, 2005. p. 65-68.