SARA -: Scaleable Architecture for Real-Time Applications

The lifecycle for multimedia applications are becoming shorter, the application complexity increases, performance is to low, fault tolerance is required, reuse of component is desired and the developer require strong verification tools to cut. down the verification phase. As the problem increases in respect of longer development time and higher quality requirements from the customer, it becomes increasingly important to examine flexible and scalable parallel processing for complex real-time systems. This is the motivation for running the research project SARA (Scaleable Architecture for Real-Time Applications). The first SARA system is now running with a vision system connected to an industrial robot (ABB Robot). This paper defines today's problems, discusses the state of the art, presents the research project SARA, and presents some results and conclusions from the first implementation.