ERC-supported TOROS Project officially launches!

The TOROS project, supported by an ERC Starting Grant, has officially started. The project targets the challenge of implementing safety-critical cyber-physical systems on commodity multicore processors such that their temporal correctness can be certified in a formal, trustworthy manner.

Specifically, the TOROS project aims to design a new theory-oriented RTOS that by construction ensures that the temporal behavior of any workload can be analyzed (regardless of whether an application developer is aware of the relevant scheduling theory), develop a matching novel timing analysis for below-worst-case provisioning with analytically sound safety margins that yields meaningful probabilistic response-time guarantees, and plans to mechanize and verify all supporting scheduling theory with the Coq proof assistant using the Prosa framework.

See the project homepage for further details. For inquiries, contact Björn Brandenburg (toros@mpi-sws.org).