Hazard scenarios possible in the system, with all its entangled interactions of hardware, procedures, and humans shall be identified bottom-up and causal relations made clear.
With energy as the focus, the question becomes how to make the basic interactions of hardware and software as energy efficient as possible for local computation (e.g., disconnected operation).
The principal challenges in system design lie in this constant interaction of software, hardware and physics.
Model-based testing is of particular importance for embedded software systems as the test cases can be performed at the real system under test and failures arising from the interaction of software and hardware can be discovered.
In this nano course, students will learn 1) basic principles of practical robotics including the interaction of software and hardware, 2) the roles of drivers, control cards, microcontrollers and sensor electronics, and 3) practical engineering skills including basic soldering, measurement of voltage, conductivity, polarity and resistance.
Since their advent, they have never been perceived as mere machines or simply the result of interaction between hardware and software.
Therefore, the efficiency of hardware and software interactions can be kept high.
But such is the complexity of these systems that even the fastest general purpose computers cannot test all the billions of possible combinations of hardware and software interactions that a cell phone or graphics chip may encounter.
The performance of a network system depends on the interaction of many elements, including both hardware and software, and is largely application dependent.
Middleware technologies are now widely used in order to provide support for the interaction of systems relying on different hardware and operating systems.
