Author: Anonymous Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 10:07:54 AM EDT Subject:Week 1 Discussion 2
"Autonomous Vehicles and Software Architectures " Please respond to the following: * Autonomous vehicles utilize integrated imaging and vision systems, sensor systems, and control systems to “drive a car”. Determine what you believe are the top-five challenges of integrating these systems. Provide one example for each challenge and explain why you believe it is a challenge. * Explain whether you believe there is a difference between designing and developing software for distributed architectures and stand-alone, non-distributed systems. Provide at least five reasons to support your position.
Autonomous Vehicles and Top-Five Challenges
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They could provide bogus information to drivers, masquerade as a different vehicle, or use denial-of-service attacks to bring down the network. The nefarious possibilities are mind-boggling—the stuff of sci-fi thrillers. But system security will undoubtedly become a paramount issue for transportation systems with the successful deployment of integrated sensor based and cooperative vehicles.
Difference Between Distributed and Non-Distributed Systems
A distributed system is a computing system in which a number of components cooperate by communicating over a network.
Computer software traditionally ran in stand-alone systems, where the user interface, application ‘business’ processing, and persistent data resided in one computer, with peripherals attached to it by buses or cables.
Inherent complexities, which arise from fundamental domain challenges: E.g., components of a distributed system often reside in separate address spaces on separate nodes, so inter-node communication needs different mechanisms, policies, and protocols than those used for intra-node communication in a stand-alone systems. Likewise, synchronization and coordination is more complicated in a distributed system since components may run in parallel and network communication can be asynchronous and non-deterministic.
System software is the software used to run and maintain the pc these are essential to the pc and without it the pc would not function
Imagine being able to get into your car and simply typing in your desired destination, and then reclining your seat to watch a movie or text a friend. During this time, the car is basically driving itself. Well, soon this may be possible this invention is called an autonomous car. An autonomous car, or driverless/ robotic car, is a car that is designed to drive without human interference. Essentially, drivers can program their destination into the car’s GPS system and then sit back and relax. Some of the world’s largest car companies are currently creating autonomous vehicles, such as Audi, Toyota, Volvo, Mercedes, and countless others. The driverless vehicle is now becoming a clearer and more present reality, and has been discussed and planned for decades. The autonomous vehicle offers significant benefits, but raises many questions and difficulties.
A computers operating system (OS) is the core of the computer and is more than just software. The OS controls the computer’s memory and processes as well as its hardware and software. It is the brain of the computer. Software applications on the other hand perform a certain task. Ex. Google Chrome provides internet and Adobe allows PDF files to be read (among other things). The OS is what makes all of these applications work successfully and accomplish whatever the application is designed to accomplish.
A) As the machines are conected to an internet, we can expect hat Internet protocols manage
The distributed system defines, how the processes to communicate and gives data access for end client to the APIs which are used to manage the distributed data. Every distributed system have identified by communication protocol and address information.
Hardware refers to the physical components of a computer or other device. An example of hardware could be a printer. Software is the set of instructions that allows a particular program to complete at ask. An example of software could be operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, and Mac OS
1.17 Consider a computing clusters consisting of two nodes running a database. Describe two ways in which the cluster software can manage access to the data on the disk. Discuss the benefits and disadvantages of each.
First off to start the assignment only requires writing about four different types of failures that can happen on a distributed system, however there are many more than just four types of failures that can happen and they are all important to learn about if you are going to work with a distributed system so that you know how to deal with and handle each one of them.
With this in mind, driving a car is a great responsibility. A vehicle can be a deadly weapon if not used with serious precaution. Road work, bad weather conditions, or even technological anomalies can cause a catastrophe. To trust even the utmost sophisticated of machines seems
In recent discussions of growing technology, a controversial issue has been whether we are ready for the advancements of driverless vehicles. On the one hand, some argue that these advancements have already proven that we are ready. On the other hand, however, others argue that we need to have more experience with the technology before we can be ready. In sum, then, the issue is are we ready or not for driver-less cars. While others think that driverless vehicles can’t be trusted yet without a commission to help lawmakers with regulating the vehicles and government officials that know more about this technology to better watch over it, I believe that we are ready for this new evolving automobile because driverless vehicles already has too much potential beginning with its self-automated breaking system and warnings.
We’ve chosen these areas specifically because we expect them to be the biggest factors in the adoption of autonomous vehicles. However, it’s important to keep in mind that some of the technologies that will be discussed are still being developed. Therefore the implications that are dependent on technologies still being developed can be considered somewhat speculative.
A self-driving car is an autonomous vehicle capable of achieving the human transportation capabilities of a traditional car. The vehicle is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input. These robot cars mainly exist as prototypes and are only used for demonstrations. Although they are likely to become more widespread, in the future.
The dream of a self driving automobile has been with us for quite some time. Many examples of what the future may hold in store have been seen in television programs and films, one notable example being the car KITT on the popular Knight Rider television series. Actual examples of the technologies being developed and those in place today include “self parking” vehicles, such as the Ford Focus Titanium, the Toyota Prius V, the Mercedes GL350, and the automatic collision avoidance systems available from multiple vehicle manufacturers. As the technology becomes more advanced and the equipment more reliable, the dream continues to come closer to reality. However, when the technologies catch up with consumer expectations, will drivers
A computer network is a network that consist of two or more computers that are able to share information between them or their users. There are a large variety of different networks and the advantages or disadvantages are strongly related to the type of network we choose.
The traditional model of software distribution, in which software is purchased for and installed on personal computers, is