Proposing an Efficient Software-Based Method for Enhancing the Reliability of Critical Application Robot
Subject Areas : journal of Artificial Intelligence in Electrical Engineering
Keywords: soft error, inherent error toleration, software reliability, benchmark, error injection,
Abstract :
Robots play such remarkable roles in humans’ modern lives that performing many tasks without them isimpossible. Using robotic systems is gradually increasing the tasks allocated to them and they are becomingmore complex and critical. Software reliability is one of the most significant requirements of robots. Forenhancing reliability, systems should be inherently designed to be tolerable of soft errors. In this study, viasoftware, a method was proposed to enhance the reliability of the software embedded within robots againstsoft errors with minimum efficiency overhead. In as much as the research method was based on experiment,a set of programs was used as benchmarks. Indeed, errors were injected at the execution time of programsfor evaluating them. The data related to the execution behavior of the programs were accumulated and thenwere analyzed. Simplescaller simulation software was used for investigating program behavior in thepresence of the injected error. [2]