Effective slack management, ie, management of unused computing resources, for real-time
control tasks mandates to redistribute the available resources between controllers as a
function of the state of the controlled plants. Slack can be allocated to control tasks to alter
their rate of progress via eg, the controllers' period, in order to adapt their behavior to
changes in the computing platform and in the environment. This paper presents an
experimental evaluation of two representative slack redistribution policies for multitasking�…