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Real-Time Messaging

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Marc Fischer
Research Assistant @ ISW Uni Stuttgart
Moritz Walker
Research Assistant @ ISW Uni Stuttgart

Modular and portable control software is becoming a key enabler for flexible production systems in industrial automation.
Our WebAssembly-based approach provides a common abstraction for real-time and non real-time control modules through a lightweight, sandboxed execution environment. Think containerization, but fine-grained and real-time. This article dives into some of the underlying concepts. So-called isolated WASM modules, combined with real-time scheduling and low-latency communication, allow our system to achieve secure, highly portable, and resource-efficient control software.