The 3rd Domestic Embedded Operating System Technology and Industry Development Forum concluded successfully

The "Third Domestic Embedded Operating System Technology and Industry Development Forum" concluded successfully

2021 is a year in which China has begun to work hard and strive after experiencing an unprecedented epidemic. The complex international political and economic environment remains. Domestic chips and domestic operating systems are highly valued by the domestic industry, academic research institutions and relevant government departments. The industry is developing rapidly and investment enthusiasm is high. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, embedded operating systems play an increasingly important role in intelligent systems. In order to cope with the increasingly complex and uncertain external environment, domestic intelligent systems are more inseparable from domestic embedded operating systems. Intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet of Things have strong demand for domestic embedded operating systems. The domestic robotics industry is in a stage of rapid development, and robot operating systems urgently need to be localized!

To this end, the School of Computer Science of Beihang University, the Hangzhou Innovation Institute of Beihang University, the Internet of Things Research Center of China Electronics Standardization Institute, the Embedded Systems Association, and the Microcontroller and Embedded System Applications Magazine held the " Third Domestic Embedded Operating System Technology and Industry Development Forum and Embedded Systems Association Theme Discussion Meeting (the 27th in total)" online amid the repeated outbreaks of the epidemic .

This forum focuses on "Industry-oriented operating system technology" and "RISC-V and open source operating systems". The organizers invited domestic experts and scholars engaged in embedded operating system research, product development and open source projects to participate in the forum's keynote speeches and guest discussions, to discuss the latest technologies, products and industrial opportunities of robot operating systems, Internet of Things operating systems, RISC-V and new generation open source operating systems, and to jointly explore a series of issues that promote common development, such as the construction of domestic operating system ecosystems and open source governance. This forum used multiple platforms for online live broadcasts for the first time, with a total audience of over 3,000 people!

Morning Session Topic: Industrial-Oriented Operating System Technology

Robot operating system and development environment

Niu Jianwei, Professor of School of Computer Science, Beihang University

As one of the hard technologies today, robots will be one of the most important directions for the development of human science and technology in the next 30 years. As a scholar who has studied robots for many years, Professor Niu Jianwei is well aware of the problems existing in the current robot industry, such as the fact that standardization work has not yet started in an all-round way and that a robot operating system with a monopoly has not yet been formed. With the development of technology, the era of fighting alone is over, and the development of robot operating systems is no exception. In the past two years, Professor Niu's team has cooperated with enterprises to develop robot operating systems, hoping to pool the efforts of everyone and develop internationally competitive products by learning from the successful experience of Android.

Professor Niu introduced that the software in robots is now transitioning from control systems to operating systems, which is a good time to develop robot operating systems. After more than two years of exploration, Professor Niu's team has initially formed a research and development idea of ​​using ROS+CoDesys+domestic real-time operating system kernel, making full use of the advantages of each company, and quickly developing a domestic robot operating system.

Today, the domestic industrial robot industry faces three major challenges: lack of domestic real-time industrial operating system, no efficient robot application development environment, and lack of open source robot ecology. To this end, Professor Niu called on all parties to work together to develop a strong real-time and highly reliable domestic robot operating system to create a new look of "Made in China"!

Professor Niu Jianwei from the School of Computer Science, Beihang University gave an online speech

Original industrial operating system SylixOS ecological development and industrialization practice

Xu Guizhou, Deputy General Manager of Yihui Information Technology

Yihui Information is a high-tech company with independent intellectual property rights for large-scale real-time operating systems. It focuses on providing professional solutions for the field of autonomous and controllable orientation. The company's main product is the SylixOS real-time operating system. Xu Guizhou reviewed the development history of SylixOS: the SylixOS kernel was completed in 2006, and major improvements were made in 2009 to support MMU and Cache to better play the advantages of high-end processors. In 2012, support for processes achieved a qualitative transformation of SylixOS. In 2015, SylixOS became a complete embedded development solution integrating design, development, debugging, simulation, deployment, and testing functions. At present, SylixOS has become a fully functional large-scale real-time embedded operating system that can adapt to most embedded processors used in the electronics industry.

As early as 2015, SylixOS conducted an evaluation of the source code autonomy rate of the overall code. It is currently one of the domestic operating systems with the highest autonomy rate, which can solve customers' worries. The application areas of SylixOS have expanded to aerospace, rail transportation, automotive electronics, defense, industrial automation, power, etc. At the end of the report, Xu Guizhou said: In the future, Yihui Information will provide better services and ecological support for partners!

Online speech by Xu Guizhou, deputy general manager of Yihui Information Technology

Application and practice of virtualization technology in industrial operating systems

Guo Jianchuan, Deputy General Manager of Dongtu Technology's Operating System Division

As the head of R&D of Dongtu's industrial operating system Intewell, Guo Jianchuan said that through continuous discussions and communications with customers, Intewell is now not only an alternative operating system platform for customers, but can also provide solutions for more niche areas, significantly reducing customer costs.

One of the biggest features of Intewell is virtualization. Guo Jianchuan introduced the characteristics and advantages of virtualization technology in his report, and explained in detail the lightweight virtualization technology that has been very popular in recent years. After 20 years of research and development, the software-defined Intewell industrial operating system has the ability to run multiple high-reliability real-time systems and multiple non-real-time systems on one hardware, integrating edge computing, industrial control, motion control, data acquisition, and artificial intelligence. Intewell has been widely used in aircraft, ships, unmanned equipment, industrial communications, industrial control and other fields.

Guo Jianchuan said that the Intewell ecosystem includes APP partners, authorized channels, strategic partners, and OEM partners, and the improvement of the ecosystem will also be the company's future strategic focus.

Online speech by Guo Jianchuan, Deputy General Manager of Dongtu Technology's Operating System Division

Discrete Automation Next Generation Control System Development Environment - Trends and Explorations

Zhang Hualiang, associate researcher at the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zhang Hualiang believes that in the new era, the automation world needs to accelerate innovation. Products are becoming more and more complex, integrating more and more motion control, machine vision, artificial intelligence, and in the future, a large amount of human-computer interaction will be added. This trend is constantly promoting the development of discrete automation. The discrete automation system is transitioning from the current pyramid structure of bottom-level equipment to scheduling management in the middle layer and then to resource planning at the top layer to a distributed structure for future business, and then to a meshed, flat control and operation integrated system platform.

After sharing the robot control platform software and application cases that his team is developing, Zhang Hualiang made the following proposal: China's automation industry should learn from the platform layout of foreign companies and accelerate the promotion of multi-party cooperation. The red ocean market is already difficult to break through. We should target emerging technologies represented by AI+TSN/5G and implement them in blue ocean applications such as intelligent robots to break the original market structure and seek new development opportunities. Zhang Hualiang hopes to have in-depth cooperation with the education field to help the industry consolidate its foundation and develop rapidly!

Online speech by Associate Researcher Zhang Hualiang from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Development and application of ROS robot operating system in industrial real-time environment

Zhang Xiaolong, PhD student at the School of Computer Science, Beihang University

Dr. Zhang Xiaolong pointed out in his speech that robotics traditionally belonged to the mechanical discipline, but has now developed into a fusion of mechanics, automation, and computers. Although algorithms and control account for an increasing proportion, it is difficult for developers with a computer background to break free from the constraints of physical robots and cope with the huge differences between the physical and virtual worlds. This is the problem currently facing robot development. The industry is in urgent need of an open robot system platform, so ROS is highly anticipated.