Real-Time Control Systems: Determinism and Automation

This lecture covers the concept of real-time control systems, focusing on the importance of meeting pre-defined time constraints to ensure system safety and efficiency. It discusses the levels of real-time requirements, effects of delays in different tasks, and the distinction between hard and soft real-time systems. The lecture also explores illustrative examples of determinism in substation automation and the implications of transmission failures. Additionally, it delves into deterministic task scheduling, task-to-task communication, and various scheduling algorithms. The importance of determinism in critical control systems and the challenges posed by non-deterministic systems are highlighted.