Everything about Real-time Control System

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Real-time Control SystemA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Software architecture design for real-time control systems: how design patterns could help?Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: C and the 8051The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Software requirements analysis for real-time process-control systemsCited 158 times
5. Go sideways: 4D-RCS Reference Model ArchitectureA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Hierarchical control systemA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Software requirements analysis for real-time process-control systems

  M.S. Jaffe, N.G. Leveson, M.P.E. Heimdahl · 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 158 citations

• System approach to design generic software for real-time control of flexible manufacturing systems

  M.P. Fanti, B. Maione, G. Piscitelli · 1996 · IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans · 35 citations

• Extension software for real-time control system design and implementation with MATLAB-SIMULINK

  Borut Zupančič · 1998 · Simulation Practice and Theory · 7 citations

• A software system for real-time control of psychological experiments

  Joseph W. Ternes, Ronald Ehrman, Charles P. O’Brien · 1982 · Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation · 4 citations

• Software concurrency in real time control systems: A software nucleus

  Ken H. Sears, Alan E. Middleditch · 1985 · Software: Practice and Experience · 3 citations

• Research on software synchronization method of real-time ethernet distributed motion control system

  Zhengyu Huang, Lingyu Chen, Lianchao Zhang · 2019 · Assembly Automation · 2 citations

• Software environment for integrating critical real-time control systems

  Mohamed F. Younis, Mohamed Aboutabl, Daeyoung Kim · 2004 · Journal of Systems Architecture · 2 citations

• Real-time testing system for attitude control software of micro-nano satellite

  董恺琛 DONG Kai-chen, 赵开春 ZHAO Kai-chun, 赵鹏飞 ZHAO Peng-fei · 2013 · Optics and Precision Engineering · 1 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Software architecture design for real-time control systems: how design patterns could help?

  Rania Mzid, Mohamed Abid · 2025 · Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering · 1 citations

• A Real-Time Hardware-in-the-Loop System Incorporating Software Defined Radios for Emulating Multi-Sensor Networked Control Systems

  Ayyappadas Rajagopal, Shaikshavali Chitraganti · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs · 1 citations

• Real-time Software Verification Technique of Attitude Determination and Control System for CubeSat

  Hanjoon Shim, Yonghwan Bae, Changdon Kee · 2023 · Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences · 0 citations

• A Study on a Real-Time Control System for Software Synthesizer Parameters Based on Motion Signals

  Helai Niu, Byung Kyu Jung · 2026 · Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange · 0 citations

• A Python-Based Open-Source Software for Real-Time Control Systems

  CINVESTAV, México, Bryan Rojas-Ricca, Rubén Garrido · 2024 · Memorias del Congreso Nacional de Control Automático · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• C and the 8051Thomas W. Schultz · 1993
• Real-Time C++Christopher Michael Kormanyos · 2013
• 📕Formal methods for the design of real-time systemsInternational School on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication, and Software Systems (4th 2004 Bertinoro, Italy) · 2004
• Next Generation Design and Verification Methodologies for Distributed Embedded Control SystemsS. Ramesh · 2007
• Fourth IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications SymposiumReal-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (4th 1998 Denver, Colo.), IEEE Computer Society · 1998
• 📕Formal design and verification of a reliable computing platform for real-time controlRicky W. Butler · 1992
• Event-Triggered and Time-Triggered Control Paradigms (Real-Time Systems Series)Roman Obermaisser · 2004

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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