Name: How to Build Autonomous, Distributed Systems using Connext 6.1
Start: 2021-05-13T15:00:00Z
End: 2021-05-13T15:52:54.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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The US warfighter requires fast and accurate data to achieve a "decision advantage" on the battlefield, while operating across remote terrain. Containerization helps users to more easily build, deploy and manage their critical applications, and DDS is the proven technology in container development that can provide fast, reliable data transmission across systems in challenging environments.  This webinar will discuss the benefits of integrating DDS with containers to ensure seamless application discovery and communication across multiple environments using a single codebase. The webinar will feature  different use case scenarios from successful field deployments and will include audience Q&A.

The webinar will cover:
- Basic principles of container development
- How DDS works in container environments
- How to communicate between containers, and from container to host
- Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
- How to deploy DDS application on Kubernetes

Data Communication Issues and Strategies in a Containerized Environment

The Object Management Group® (OMG®) has recently released the new DDS™ Extensions for Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) specification. This latest addition to the DDS family of specifications leverages the capabilities of the IEEE TSN collection of standards to provide system architects with an integrated solution to build data-centric highly reliable deterministic applications over standard Ethernet. In this presentation, we will discuss the new OMG specification, describe its most salient features and concepts, and explain how existing DDS applications that exchange time critical information can be deployed over TSN.

Introducing the DDS Extensions for TSN specification

Developing, testing and deploying next-generation distributed systems is challenging enough on its own. When developers and system architects then need to deploy over networks that may be unreliable or have unpredictable bandwidth and latency, such as shared, wireless or public networks, the challenges proliferate. Monitoring the health, security, and performance of applications in real-time can significantly decrease your development time, costs and risk. 

RTI, the largest software framework company for autonomous systems, is leading the software-defined future and working alongside the world’s leading companies building intelligent distributed systems. Join this webinar to be the first to hear about the latest software developments and tools for companies building observable next-generation DDS-based systems.

How to Develop and Deploy Observable Next-gen DDS Systems

ROS was created by and for the use of robotics researchers and educators. It has an open, hackable architecture that encourages experimentation, but this can be at odds with the needs of military applications.

Fortunately, ROS 2 was built on top of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) framework, a battle-tested open standard used in countless military applications. This webinar will discuss proven ways to  toughen and optimize ROS 2 systems for military-grade usage by leveraging the DDS that's already present in ROS 2, awakening the warrior inside the academic.

Bridging the Academic to Military Divide in ROS 2

Oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface, yet 80% of the ocean remains unmapped, unobserved and unexplored, primarily since the maritime environment is so dangerous to humans. Maritime smart machines enable safe, informative ocean exploration, off-shore energy, undersea drilling and mining, sustainable aquaculture, maritime autonomy, and naval defense. Yet these systems are only effective when they can share data in real time from undersea to surface to shore.

All of these applications face common communications challenges on how to collect and share the data so it can be used for timely, improved decision making for developers of these systems, “IOT” stands for the Internet of Ocean Things. Join this webinar to learn how a data-centric approach to system architecture can solve the challenge to help your maritime systems work as one.

The webinar will discuss:  
- Emerging standards for autonomous maritime vessels
- Case studies on:
      - Coordination of turbines in off-shore power generation
      - Remote control of unmanned subsea robots
      - Sea-based sensor networks for sustainable aquaculture
How data-centric communications enables all of these applications

Towards a data-centric Internet of Ocean Things

The most recent version of the UK MoD's Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) includes a number of changes that outline the direction in which the standard is evolving.

In this presentation we will discuss:
- Some of the most significant changes in the standard (for example, integration levels).
- How those changes point towards an evolved future for GVA systems.
- How other significant technologies, such as TSN, could be important drivers for GVA in the future.
- How connectivity (for example, between simulation systems) is becoming critically important and how GVA is ideally situated to enable it
- What effects recent revisions to the Land Data Model (LDM) have had.

GVA and its Place in a Connected Future

Many medical, IIoT, and Industrial Systems require sharing of data across networks, across different transport protocols, or among devices.  These systems often require capabilities such as fault-tolerance, scalability, low-latency, and sub-system isolation. DDS enables these types of applications by providing a data-centric, highly scalable and efficient databus architecture. Furthermore, layering databuses has many benefits, including scalability, isolation, and redundancy.

However, key questions must be answered when designing a layered databus system:
·  What are some recommended approaches for defining the layers?
·  How are the layers connected?
·  What effects does layering have on performance?
·  What are the different approaches to implementing a layered databus?

This presentation will provide an overview of these topics and offer insights and recommendations for designing your own DDS-based systems.

Architecting your System with Connext: Designing a Layered Databus System

The war in Ukraine emphasizes the need to manage a military posture that places the United States and our global coalition partners in a heightened state of competition with malign actors worldwide. Synthesizing data from coalition partners and allies into information and intelligence that drives understanding and enables accelerated decision-making in a multi-domain environment provides both a posture to avoid a potential conflict, and also the decision-making advantage over adversaries if a large-scale conflict evolves.

For this reason, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) created the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy. JADC2 describes the urgent need to empower our Joint Force Commanders with required sensor data to drive the understanding needed to command and control (C2) kinetic and non-kinetic weapons capabilities across all domains – to deter, and if necessary, defeat any adversary at any time and in any place around the globe. 

To succeed, the JADC2 strategy requires the unimpeded delivery of real-time data that enables situational awareness over Zero Trust networks to Joint Force Commanders, regardless of the military domain or location. To accomplish this goal, we must embrace the U.S. DoD Strategy that transforms the DoD into a data-centric organization using data at speed and scale for operational advantage and increased efficiency and to “treat data as a weapon system and manage, secure and use data for operational effect.”

This webinar will describe the current state of the JADC2 strategy from a business perspective. We will also detail the requirements for creating a data-centric framework for JADC2 that enables real-time data sharing technologies to deliver information and decision-making dominance to Joint Force Commanders.

JADC2:  The Business Foundation of Treating Data as a Weapon System

The inclusion of the Data Distribution Service (DDS™) standard within the Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA) and the Nato Generic Vehicle Architecture (NGVA) standards is dramatically improving modularity, interoperability and productivity for builders of military ground vehicles. But is it possible to build systems that are compliant with both standards? What can builders of GVA / NGVA systems do to reduce discovery times? Do they face other common challenges? Finally, what role does DDS-SECURITY™ play and how is it relevant for protecting classified data?

These are the key topics that will be covered in the second installment of our GVA webinar series.

DDS in GVA and NGVA: Common Challenges, Common Solutions

Next-generation healthcare systems promise to deliver more targeted treatments, improve patient outcomes, and lower patient and hospital costs. To make this vision a reality, the industry must overcome key blockers, particularly around medical device interoperability.

While a connected device ecosystem will deliver better outcomes, it also increases system complexity. The solution is an open, interoperable connectivity architecture that can enable future-forward flexibility and scalability while maintaining reliability, cybersecurity, and performance.

In this webinar we'll discuss how the right architectural framework connects systems of medical devices so they work as a single integrated solution – reliably, securely and in real-time. It will discuss how using commercial off-the-shelf software, based on open standards, can manage the necessary infrastructure to optimize outcomes and productivity, allowing developers  to focus on application development and the integration of new technologies, instead of infrastructure.

Connectivity for Next-Gen Medical Devices: Real-Time, Secure, Scalable

Software developers face challenges to reduce code cost, shrink schedules and rapidly deploy new capabilities and systems. Microservice-based designs enable faster development by decomposing problems into independent building blocks that promote loose coupling, enabling rapid rollout of new features to existing systems.  

This RTI webinar shows how RTI Connext® provides a data-centric approach to microservice integration that promotes interoperability and meets real-time design requirements by sharing information across systems.  

Join us to learn how to:
·  Build better modular, open systems in a more agile way
·  Decouple microservices in time, space and flow
·  Simplify application code through time and content filtering
·  Use Quality of Service (QoS) to meet and monitor real-time constraints
·  Secure systems from internal and external threats

Using Connext to Architect and Optimize Microservices-based Designs

In 2010, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) released their General Vehicle Architecture standard (Def Stan 23-009), widely known as GVA. It defined a set of requirements for the development of military vehicles aimed at reducing project risk, reducing costs and improving equipment capability.

In the intervening years, GVA has evolved as lessons have been learned, technology has improved and requirements have changed. 

This webinar outlines the key technical aspects of GVA. It will focus on how Data Distribution Service (DDS) is used as part of the underlying structure of a GVA based system, and will review some of the more recent changes in the GVA standard itself.

Understanding GVA: An Evolving Platform for Land Vehicles

Join us for a review of the key principles of DDS, the Databus and Data-Centricity.

Principles of DDS, the Databus and Data-Centricity

Next-generation healthcare systems promise to deliver more targeted treatments, improve patient outcomes and lower costs.

This vision is becoming a reality as surgical robotics, advanced imaging, and connected patient monitoring transform into intelligent digital ecosystems.

Leveraging the right data at the right time enables these systems to collaborate, offering more targeted and effective treatments.

The industry is faced with challenges to realize the potential of intelligence and autonomy across the device ecosystem. The complexity caused by device connectivity impedes time-to-market, scalability, and evolution of these systems. State-of-the-art software connectivity is needed to develop flexible systems and address the demanding requirements for reliability, cybersecurity and performance.

Based on the DDS connectivity standard, Connext enables surgical robots, imaging systems, and critical care systems to work together as one integrated system, in real-time.

This presentation will cover the challenges faced by our customers in the medical market and how Connext is able to overcome them.

Real-Time Medical Application Connectivity

This presentation will explore the industry challenges and the role of the distributed software framework in accelerating the development and evolution of next-generation intelligent medical devices with Real-Time and Intelligent Data Connectivity. Attendees will learn:
- The ability of the software communication framework to enable:
     Faster and more efficient software development lifecycles.
     Flexible, upgradeable, and interoperable systems.
     Meeting demanding and simultaneous requirements for reliability, cybersecurity and performance. 
     Data-centric and fine-grained security control to support regulatory requirements, security-by-design, and zero-trust architectures.
- RTI Connext: The Connectivity Framework for Next-Generation Healthcare Systems:
     RTI’s software connectivity framework runs surgical robotics, imaging and radiation therapy systems, digital operating rooms, next-generation critical care systems and platforms.
     Enables intelligent and connected medical devices to work as one integrated solution with reliable, secure, and scalable architectures.
     RTI is a trusted partner to leading healthcare companies to solve the challenges of connected healthcare.

Accelerating Next-Gen Medical Devices development with Real-Time Connectivity

Working with interconnected systems is stressful. Designing a complex system with rapidly-changing requirements, is even more so. How can you use the legacy code while evolving the system to meet future demands (and budget)?  

This webinar explains how a strong adaptable software foundation, or framework, can be used to connect many disparate elements while providing technology adaptability, portability and reusability.  

At the core of this framework is the publish-subscribe methodology of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard. The DDS databus provides the data centricity to enable system elements to be added, removed, redesigned, and repurposed without re-architecting the system. 

On March 10, join RTI to learn how to design a future-proof system through a data-centric architecture.

Designing your System for a Future of Unknowns

Data Distribution Service™ (DDS) and Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) are two standards that work together to provide a deterministic and data-centric communication framework for end-to-end communications in mission-critical systems. The combination of DDS and TSN takes deterministic communication to the next logical step, making it possible to specify and enforce Quality of Service (QoS) for critical data flows in distributed systems. The Object Management Group® (OMG) is working on a standard to enable the DDS databus to be deployed on TSN-enabled networks. Join one of the key architects of this work to learn the rules for mapping DDS features onto TSN concepts to support the design, deployment, and execution of DDS systems over TSN. You will learn about the most common use cases and benefits of DDS-TSN in this technical deep-dive session.

DDS and TSN: A Deterministic Communications Framework for Data-Centric Systems

Despite investments in the latest equipment, many rail systems continue to face challenges in managing and optimizing connectivity. How can rail operators design one system to collect and monitor data from fast-moving trains operating through remote terrain; close interoperability gaps between countries and rail carriers; share data between legacy and modern equipment; and push out critical system updates to assets in motion? 

On March 15, join SYSGO and RTI to learn how a data-centric architecture built on a safety-certified foundation enables the necessary connectivity, flexibility and scalability needed for modern rail systems. The speakers will discuss and demonstrate a safety-certified approach to system design using standards-based, Commercial Off-the-Shelf software. This integrated, scalable connectivity solution enables legacy and ATO sub-systems to be seamlessly integrated regardless of system hardware. The demonstration will illustrate how to break down communication silos for faster uptake and deployment of projects that enable technological leadership and system-wide optimization in rail.

Modernizing Rail Systems for Interoperability, Scalability and Safety

Are you looking to significantly accelerate the development of your autonomous real-time system? Is it critical that your systems operate over disparate network types? Are you faced with the challenge of implementing software for distributed control?

Autonomous systems are revolutionizing distributed systems. A significant benefit is their ability to operate in otherwise inaccessible or hazardous environments. Instead of humans providing direct physical control, these applications can use remote operators for supervision and to intervene in scenarios beyond their artificial intelligence capabilities.

RTI, the largest software framework company for autonomous systems, is working with the world’s largest companies building remotely-operated autonomous systems. Join this webinar to be the first to hear about the latest software developments for companies building highly distributed autonomous systems.

How to Build Autonomous, Distributed Systems using Connext 6.1

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