Design and Implementation of Embedded Systems for Real-Time Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 1495
Special Issue Editors
Interests: embedded systems; high performance systems design; wearables; image processing; aerospace applications
Interests: embedded systems; hardware design, machine vision; semiconductors
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Dear Colleagues:
Today, embedded systems play vital roles in a large number of commercial, industrial and scientific applications. The use of microprocessors, microcontrollers, Digital Signal Processors, FPGAs, and GPUs adds intelligence to electronic systems, offering attractive solutions where size and energy consumption are critical design aspects. However, the development of embedded systems is quite challenging, since success often forces the implementation of low-level operations and custom hardware development to apply computationally demanding algorithms to integrated circuits with limited processing power. Development can be even more complex when strict specifications for real-time operation have been defined, necessitating squeezing every bit of the system to accomplish its mission imperative. Embedded systems have been adopted in several domains such as control, robotics, image processing, telecommunications, wearables, bioengineering, automotive, healthcare, aerospace, navigation, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Recently, an emerging trend has been to fit even Artificial Intelligence into small embedded systems for edge computing applications. As is evident, there is space for advancements in many fields, rendering the design and implementation of efficient embedded systems a continuously hot research area.
We invite you to submit novel contributions that address critical aspects and optimize the utilization of real-time embedded systems. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following.
- AI methods implemented on embedded systems;
- Advanced control methods such as adaptive, fuzzy, predictive, robust, etc.;
- Acceleration of image processing algorithms using custom hardware;
- Wearables for sports and fitness, healthcare and medical, entertainment, personal security, etc.;
- Embedded systems in robotics applications such as autonomous navigation, vision systems, manipulation, sensing, human-robot interaction, etc.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. John Vourvoulakis
Prof. Dr. John Kalomiros
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- embedded systems
- real time
- edge computing
- artificial intelligence
- image processing
- wearables
- robotics
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