Martin Becker

Technical University of Munich
Real-Time Computer Systems
Arcisstraße 21
80290 Munich, Germany

Room 3942 (link to roomfinder)

Phone: +49-89-289-23556
Fax: +49-89-289-23555

Email: becker_at_rcs.ei.tum.de

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Office Hours

By appointment only; please write an email.

Biography

since 2012: Research and teaching associate at TUM RCS
2012: received M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Technische Universität München.
2008--2010: Systems Engineer Avionics Concepts at Airbus Group (formerly EADS).
2008: received Dipl.-Ing.(BA) in Electrical/Communication Engineering at University of Cooperative Education Ravensburg, Friedrichshafen.

Research Interests

applications in avionics, see also multicopters "MART" and weather balloon
functional and temporal verification of high-integrity software
workflows and real-time programming languages and formal verification
embedded Linux and performance analysis

Teaching

Real-Time Programming Languages (since WS 2012)
Advanced Seminar (since SS 2018)
Multicopter Lab: Collaborative Development of Embedded Systems (2014-2018)
Software Engineering for Real-Time Systems at TUM Asia, Singapore (2012-2015)

Selection of Supervised Work

The following theses/internships are already assigned or completed. For more open topics visit this page.

An Intelligent Camera Payload for 3D City Mapping, Master's Thesis, A. Baudot, 2018. Conducted at Airbus Defence and Space.
Approaches for Safe and Approximate Instruction-to-Source Mapping in Mainstream Compilers, Master's Thesis, M. Pazaj, 2018.
Matching Machine Instructions to Source Code Blocks, Research Internship, M. Pazaj, 2017.
Dependency-Sensitive Verification Statistics for SPARK2014 Programs, Master's Thesis, M. Asam, 2017.
Software Architecture & Design for a Remote Control Unit of an Aircraft Radio Transceiver, Bachelor's Thesis, L. Hauenschild, 2017. Conducted at Rohde & Schwarz.
Development of a mobile automatic low-cost antenna tracker for Micro Air Vehicles, Forschungspraxis, J. Yates, 2016.
Entwurf, Analyse und Validierung eines leichten heimkehrenden Wetterballons, Diplomarbeit, M. Jungmann, 2016.
Development and Verification of a Flight Stack for a High-Altitude Micro Glider, Master's Thesis, E. Regnath, 2016.
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Embedded Multicore Systems Parallelized with Embedded Multicore Building Blocks (EMB²), Research Internship, S. Bilgeri, 2016. Conducted at Siemens.
Robust Real-Time Tracking of Micro Air Vehicles in RGB-D Video Streams, Master's Thesis, S. Stanglmayr, 2016.
Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Source-Level Software Verification Approaches in Ada, Forschungspraxis, E. Regnath, 2016.
Development and Demonstration of a Software-Defined Real-Time Control Interface for Micro Air Vehicles, Master's Thesis, A. Söhn, 2015.
Performance Assessment and Optimization of an Emergency Recovery System for Micro Air Vehicles, Research Internship, M. Neumair, 2015.
Software V&V of an Emergency Recovery System for Micro Air Vehicles, Research Internship, A. Söhn, 2015.
Design and Integration of an Emergency Recovery System for Micro Air Vehicles, Master's Thesis, M. Neumair, 2015.
Real-Time Airspace Classification and Segmentation for Micro Air Vehicles, Bachelor's Theses, K.T. Zi-Mian, Z.P. Toh, 2014.
Entwicklung einer bidirektionalen PANLink-to-Ethernet Schnittstelle auf FPGA Basis, Bachelor Thesis, C. Niechziol, 2013. Conducted at ESG.
Investigating the Integration of a Synchronous Language Kernel into Matlab Simulink, Bachelor Thesis, Wong Zhi Wei Adrian, 2012.

Source Codes and Tips

If you are looking for some source code related to a paper, a list of my software projects or coding guidelines, then do not click here.

Talks

September 2017, at Forum on Specification & Design Languages: "Introduction to SPARK 2014 - How to Develop Ultra-Low Defect Software", for details see here.
May 2017, at Frama-C & SPARK Day (Open Source Innovation Spring): "Remove Before Flight: Defect-Free Software and Agile Development in SPARK 2014", download slides here.
May 2015, at Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune: "Multicopter Platforms as Research Vehicles".
August 2014, at Technische Universität München: "Functionally Safe Software for Embedded Systems", download slides here.
March 2014, at TU Chemnitz, Software Technology for Embedded Systems: "Reconfigurable Embedded Control Systems".
September 2013, at TUM CREATE, Singapore: "Polymorphic Systems - Challenges and Approaches at RCS".

Recent Publications

2019

Cross-Layer Interactions in CPS for Performance and Certification, S. Chakraborty, J.H. Anderson, M. Becker, H. Graeb, S. Halder, R. Metta, L. Thiele, S. Tripakis, A. Yeolekar, In Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Florence, IT.

2018

Measuring Software Performance on Linux, M. Becker, S. Chakraborty, Technical Report, Munich, DE. [Read report]
Optimizing Worst-Case Execution Times Using Mainstream Compilers, M. Becker, S. Chakraborty, 21st International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES), Sankt Goar, DE. [Read paper]
Scalable and Precise Estimation and Debugging of the Worst-Case Execution Time for Analysis-Friendly Processors, M. Becker, R. Metta, R. Venkatesh, S. Chakraborty, In International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), Springer Nature. [Read article] [Preprint]

2017

Development and Verification of a Flight Stack for a High-Altitude Glider in Ada/SPARK 2014, M. Becker, E. Regnath, S. Chakraborty, In 36th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP), Trento, IT. [Read preprint]

2016

TIC: A Scalable Model Checking Based Approach to WCET Estimation, R. Metta, M. Becker, P. Bokil, S. Chakraborty and R. Venkatesh, In ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory for Embedded Systems (LCTES), Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

2015

Timing Analysis of Safety-Critical Automotive Software: The AUTOSAFE Tool Flow, M. Becker, Sajid M, K. Albers, P.P. Chakrabarti, S. Chakraborty, P. Dasgupta, S. Dey and R. Metta, In 22nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), New Delhi, IN.
Approaches for Software Verification of an Emergency Recovery System for Micro Air Vehicles, M. Becker, M. Neumair, A. Söhn, S. Chakraborty, In 34th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP) Companion, Delft, NL. [Read preprint]
Composing Real-Time Applications from Communicating Black-Box Components, M. Becker, A. Masrur, S. Chakraborty, In 20th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Tokyo, JP.