ABSTRACT
A real-time control system is a system in which the resulting performance depends not only on the correctness of the single control actions but also on the time at which the actions are produced [30]. Realtime applications span a wide range of domains including industrial plants control, automotive, flight control systems, monitoring systems, multimedia systems, virtual reality, interactive games, consumer electronics, industrial automation, robotics, space missions, and telecommunications. In these systems, a late action might cause a wrong behavior (e.g., system instability) that could even lead to a critical system failure. Hence, the main difference between a real-time task and a non-real-time task is that a real-time task must complete within a given deadline, which is the maximum time allowed for a computational process to finish its execution.
