Research Topics

Our lab focuses on two topics: Topic 1: Evaluating, testing, benchmarking and debugging (real-time) operating systems for single and multi-core systems including virtualisation. This topic goes on for already 20 years in collaboration with Dedicated Systems company. The result of this work can be downloaded. Topic 2: Designing and developing a generic platform for swarm embedded intelligence. This includes the design of smart adaptive scheduling systems for safety critical applications. this is applicable in the IoT domain and in the swarm robotics field. The lab is headed by Prof Martin Timmerman. A number of PhD and Master students are participating in the research.

Our lab focuses on two topics:

Topic 1: Evaluating, testing, benchmarking and debugging (real-time) operating systems for single and multi-core systems including virtualisation. This topic goes on for already 20 years in collaboration with Dedicated Systems company. The result of this work can be downloaded.

Topic 2: Designing and developing a generic platform for swarm embedded intelligence. This includes the design of smart adaptive scheduling systems for safety critical applications. this is applicable in the IoT domain and in the swarm robotics field.

The lab is headed by Prof Martin Timmerman. A number of PhD and Master students are participating in the research.

Research and PhD positions



Designing and Implementing an Adaptive Framework for Multi-Robot Systems taking security and safety in mind. Smart adaptive embedded real-time OS - focus on security Adding more security to platform virtualization solutions in both business and embedded applications.

Publication List

Year	Title	Authors	Published in	Access it
2017	A Design that Incorporates Adaptive Reservation into Mixed-Criticality Systems	Fei GUAN, Long PENG, Luc PERNEEL, Hasan Fayyad-Kazan and Martin Timmerman	Scientific Programming	View
2017	Reducing pessimism in mixed-criticality system designs	Fei Guan	Doctoral Thesis, ISBN 978-9-4619751-0-2
2017	EMSBOT: A Modular Software Framework for Networked Robotic Systems	Long Peng	Doctoral Thesis, ISBN 978-9-4619751-1-9
2017	Decentralized Multi-Robot Formation Control with Communication Delay and Asynchronous Clock	Long Peng, Fei Guan, Luc Perneel, Hasan Fayyad-Kazan and Martin Timmerman	Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (accepted)	View
2016	Open Source FreeRTOS as a Case Study in Real-time Operating System Evolution	Fei Guan, Long Peng, Luc Perneel, Martin Timmerman	Journal of Systems and Software	View
2016	Behaviour and performance comparison between FreeRTOS and uC/OS-III	Long Peng, Fei Guan, Luc Perneel, Martin Timmerman	International Journal of Embedded Systems	View
2016	EmSBoT: A Lightweight Modular Software Framework for Networked Robotic Systems	Long Peng, Fei Guan, Luc Perneel, Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Martin Timmerman	2016 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA)	View
2016	EmSBoT: A Modular Framework Supporting the Development of Swarm Robotics Applications	Long Peng, Fei Guan, Luc Perneel, and Martin Timmerman	International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems	View
2016	RTS hypervisor qualification for real-time systems	Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Luc Perneel, Long Peng, Fei Guan, Martin Timmerman,	International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication (IJRITCC)	View
2015	Real-time capabilities in the standard Linux Kernel: How to enable and use them?	Luc Perneel, Fei Guan, Long Peng, Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Martin Timmerman	International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication	View
2015	Detection of high voltage lines based on analyzing images recieved from an UAV in order to detect corona discharge	Vidan Cristian, Jula Nicolae, Mrtin Timmerman, Robby Haelterman	The 21st International Conference of applied technical sciences and advanced miltary technologies	View
2015	Business Hypervisors for Real-time Applications	L. Perneel, H. Fayyad-Kazan, L. Peng, F. Guan, M. Timmerman	International journal of Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research	View
2013	Linux PREEMPT-RT vs. commercial RTOSs: how big is the performance gap?	Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Luc Perneel, Martin Timmerman	GSTF Journal of Computing	View
2013	Linux PREEMPT-RT 2.6.33 versus 3.6.6: better or worse for real-time applications?	Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Luc Perneel, Martin Timmerman	EWiLi'13, The 3rd Embedded Operating Systems Workshop	View
2013	Android and Real-Time Applications: Take Care!	Luc Perneel, Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Martin Timmerman	Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences	View
2013	Full and Para-Virtualization with Xen: A Performance Comparison	Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Luc Perneel, Martin Timmerman	Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences	View
2013	Evaluating the performance and behavior of RT-Xen	Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Luc Perneel, Martin Timmerman	International Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications	View
2013	A Performance Comparison Between Enlightenment and Emulation in Microsoft Hyper -V	Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Luc Perneel, Martin Timmerman	Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology Hardware & Computation	View
2013	Benchmarking the Performance of Microsoft Hyper-V server, VMware ESXi and Xen Hypervisors	Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Luc Perneel, Martin Timmerman	Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences	View
2012	Can Android be used for Real-time purposes?	Luc Perneel, Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, Martin Timmerman	1st IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Industrial Informatics (ICCSII'12)	View
2010	An FPGA-based real-time event sampler	Niels Penneman, Luc Perneel, Martin Timmerman, Bjorn De Sutter	Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Reconfigurable Computing: architectures, Tools and Applications	View