IMMORTAL – Funding
This project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 644905.
About IMMORTAL
Computers have become an inseparable part of our everyday life and their presence is only expected to increase in the years to come. There will be more than 30 billion computing devices connected to the internet by the year 2020. As of today, a vast majority of computers are deployed as embedded, networked systems interacting with the physical environment via sensors and actuators. This has given a rise to a new engineering paradigm of cyber-physical systems.
Modern cyber-physical systems constitute a central part of many safety-critical (automotive, avionic, nuclear), mission-critical (space, military), and business-critical (industry automation) applications, where failures can have catastrophic consequences. Needless to say, reliability, correct operation as well as extensive lifetime of such systems is of utmost importance. While there exist pioneering CAD software tools for cyber-physical systems development, the aspects of reliable design and verification have been so far largely neglected.
To overcome this gap, EU’s Horizon 2020 launched a Research and Innovation Action IMMORTAL, where a consortium of leading European experts join their forces to develop new computer architectures and a framework of software tools for designing reliable cyber-physical systems. In IMMORTAL, competence of DLR on building cyber-physical systems for space and avionics is combined with the verification and debug know-how from Graz University of Technology, Austria. The reliable hardware architecture ties together many-core systems from Recore Systems, The Netherlands, fault management and transportation networks from Testonica Lab, Estonia, error checking capabilities from IBM Israel , and analog monitors for keeping track of the system’s health status from University of Twente, The Netherlands. The project is coordinated by the research group of dependable multi-core systems of Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.
IMMORTAL will develop holistic reliability modeling and analysis, across multiple layers, starting from the operating system down to physical implementation of the system. A new fault management infrastructure will be created enabling rapid fault recovery and life-time extension for future cyber-physical systems. Last but not least, verification solutions allowing automated localization and correction of bugs in models of such systems will be introduced.
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