Rapid prototyping of open source ordinary differential equations solver in distributed embedded control application

This paper proposes a rapid prototyping framework based on open source tools for real-time solution of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) problems on embedded microcontrollers. A plug-in software for the deployment of ODE solvers, in C language, on embedded industrial environment is proposed. By means of C portability across different microcontrollers architectures, there is the possibility to give a considerable boost in rapid prototyping of mechatronics and complex embedded system applications. Some commercial softwares feature toolsets for the autogeneration of open C code, but they do not provide the translation of the ODE solvers' routines for embedded systems. A key for open source software integration has been the adoption of an infrastructure based on a Database Management System (DBMS) on board of the embedded system.