The boundaries of control systems are very wide. Control systems are differentiated from those of management, in particular, by the variety of the fields they cover in the industrial sector:

• air, railway, and road transport control systems
• supervision systems for industrial processes, electrical supply networks, telecom
• equipment simulation systems, both civil and military
• monitoring and offensive military armament systems
• image processing systems such as numerical video, medical imagery
• embedded systems: cars, military...

This list is far from exhaustive.

Control systems are also characterized by the level of their environment. They are mostly in close contact with the hardware, and this must be taken into account on the architectural level. Certain standards, protocols and constraints have to be respected.

When they are embedded in these materials, additional development and tooling constraints come into play: the development platform and proting to a target platform.

Finally, many of these systems are characterized by their criticality:

• availability: management of breakdowns and degraded modes, redundancy, failovers...
• response time: memory management, CPU...
• security: risk to the lives of humans, preservation of the system's hardware environment.

These requirements often imply strong requirements in test and simulation.

The whole of these characteristics specific to the technical systems implies throughout process of development an increased quality of the deliverable ones.

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