Homepage for the Course "Cyber-Physical System Fundamentals (CPSF)" in SS 2018

Course title:

Cyber-Physical System Fundamentals (CPSF)

Overview:

The aim of this course is to provide an overview over fundamental techniques of designing embedded systems (information processing systems embedded into products such as telecommunication systems, vehicles or robots). At the end of the course, the student will be able to put the different areas of embedded systems into perspective and to understand more specialized topics, such as timing predictability, modeling, scheduling, or performance evaluation.

Organization:

• Start of course: 16.05.2018
• Semester: Summer semester 2018
• Language: English
• Teaching method: Due the existence of recorded video lectures on youtube, traditional lectures do not make any sense. The course will follow an innovative approach called "flipped classroom" (see wikipedia definition for this term) approach. Students are supposed to watch the videos at home. In the class, we will jointly work together with the material covered in the videos. In order to make this scheme work, students should attend classroom meetings. Student should not assume that they could watch the videos in the last week before the finals! There are just too many. Flipped classrooms are also used with massive open online courses (MOOCs).
• Prerequisites: Programming skills must be present (preferably in C), finite state machines
• Assistant: Lea Schönberger
• Credits: 6 CP (requires successfull participation in labs and finals)
• Reference books: Peter Marwedel, Embedded System Design: Embedded Systems Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems, 2nd ed., Springer, 2010
• Target audience: Students of "automation and robotics", ERASMUS students with limited German language skills, guest students of Ruhr campus online program, students of the international summer school program of TU Dortmund.
• Incompatibilities: this course cannot be selected by students for which the German course "Eingebettete Systeme" is an elective, i.e. students of the "Informatik" and "Angewandte Informatik" programs of TU Dortmund.
• Exams: see the information in the faculty scheduled examine dates.

Schedule:

Lab exercises:

In the lab exercises, we will solve practical problems related to the lecture to provide you with a deeper understanding of the respective topics. The assignments must not be solved alone but in teams of 2-3 people (teams will be formed during the first exercise sessions). Please note that although we offer three different time slots for the exercises, you need to attend only one of them. Please register for your time slot of choice via the AsSESS system (registration will be open from 16.05.2018). If you have any problems with the registration, please contact us. 

Relevant information at a glance:

• Start of the exercise sessions: 28.05.2018
• Passing the lab exercises is mandatory to participate in the final exam.
• To pass the lab exercises, 50% of the total points must be achieved in the first half (exercise sheets 1-3) and in the second half (exercise sheets 4-6).
• The registration will be open from 16.05.2018 via the AsSESS system.
• New assignments will be updated weekly.