Overview on "EicasLab: a new way for building ERIKA enterprise applications"

Thanks to the new EicasLab FLEX module available in the EicasLab software suite, it is possible to automatically generate applications running on single and multi-core embedded systems (FLEX boards targets) equipped with the ERIKA enterprise real-time kernel.

WEBINAR n.1 - EICASLAB FLEX module and Amazing Ball description

The webinar introduces the following topics:

• What is EicasLab: short overview
• Highlight on the three Control design operative modes
• Description of the new add-on: EicasLab FLEX module
• Description of the practical use case: the EVIDENCE Amazing Ball

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WEBINAR n.2 - Modelling and Like Real-time simulation operative mode

The webinar focuses on the Modelling and Like Real-time simulation EicasLab operative mode. This mode has been specifically studied to offer an advanced support for designing the overall control strategy and preliminary assessing its performance in a powerful simulated environment. Special focus is given to allow to design complex hardware and software architecture, including multi-processors and multi level hierarchical controls. Furthermore, simulations are performed by applying the like-real time technique, able to faithfully emulate "like real-time" the activities scheduling order expected in the final software and hardware architecture.
For running this operative mode only a standard PC equipped with Linux or Windows O/S and with the EicasLab suite is required.
In detail, the webinar includes the following sections:

• Overview of the Modelling and Like Real-time simulation operative mode and main outstanding characteristics:
  • Pre-organised working areas
  • Focus on HW/SW architecture
  • The two model approach
  • Powerful algorithms and oriented libraries
  • Like real-time simulation technique
  • Automatic code generation of the Application Software
• EicasLab tools available to support the operative mode
• Application to the Amazing Ball platform

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WEBINAR n.3 - General aspects of the Rapid Control Prototyping operative mode

The webinar focuses on the general concepts and fundamentals of the Rapid Control Prototyping EicasLab operative mode, specifically studied to offer an advanced support and tools to allow to quickly perform a rapid control prototyping campaign.
In detail, the webinar includes the following sections:

• State of art
• EicasLab innovative approach
• Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) in EicasLab
  • Scheduling, cores & threads
  • RCP on field
  • Slow Motion
  • SIM RCP
• EicasLab tools to support RCP

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WEBINAR n.4 - Application of the Rapid Control Prototyping operative mode to the Amazing Ball use case: the RCP on field sub-mode

This webinar presents the Rapid Control Prototyping operative mode applied to the Amazing Ball use case by exploiting the first of the three sub-modes available in the RCP phase — called RCP on field sub-mode — specifically devoted to manage the overall experimental trial executions.
In details the following topics are presented.

• General overview of the hardware configuration of the system used for performing the RCP campaign, composed by the EicasLab RCP platform, the Amazing Ball platform and the physical connections between the EicasLab RCP platform and the Amazing Ball platform.
• Detailed description of the set up procedure necessary for switching from the Modelling and like real-time simulation operative mode to the RCP on field sub-mode.
• Real-time experimental trial execution where the ball moves on the plate according to the commanded trajectory, with highlight on the main concepts and features offered by EicasLab.
• Post processing phase (carried out by means the POST tool) that, similarly to the Modelling and like real-time simulation operative mode, allows to review all the variables of interest that the designer has set up for recording on the disk during the RCP on field trial.

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WEBINAR n.5 - The Slow Motion sub-mode exploited for the Amazing Ball use case

This webinar presents the Rapid Control Prototyping operative mode applied to the Amazing Ball use case, by exploiting the second of the three sub-modes available in the RCP phase — called Slow Motion sub-mode — specifically devoted to manage the overall experimental trial executions.
In details the following topics are presented.

• How to enable the Slow Motion feature.
• How to configure the recording of the data during the RCP trial and how to insert custom user variables, in addition to the ones automatically set by EicasLab, necessary to perform the Slow Motion.
• How to repeat in the simulation environment — called Slow Motion tool — the same trial performed with the Amazing Ball platform during the RCP on field sub-mode, shown in the webinar "WEBINAR n.4 - The RCP on field sub-mode exploited for the Amazing Ball use case".