Many modern industrial systems fall in the realm of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) because of the tight interaction between computation, communication and control elements (the cyber part), and physical processes (the physical part) within these systems. Requirements related to cost, quality and reliability enforce designs with over-provisioning of platform resources (computation, communication, memory) by large margins at each phase to be able to fulfil system-level requirements in the worst-case scenarios. To replace such overly conservative design process, there is an urgent need for integrative design trajectories that allow for tradeoffs between cost, quality and reliability coping with the tight coordination between the cyber and the physical components. This gives rise to the need for models that accurately capture the interaction between various components (e.g. software, electronics, mechanics, algorithms, power, energy, etc.) and novel design methods that exploit the artefacts of the underlying platforms.
The key scientific objective of the oCPS program is to enable the design of a new generation of cost-effective, quality-driven and reliable CPS by developing model-driven design methods that capture the interaction between different models at various design layers, that take into account physical constraints and processes, and that introduce platform-awareness at all levels. The program aims to train a generation of young researchers in cross-disciplinary thinking and deliver industrially validated tool chains.
The consortium is composed by nine beneficiaries (Eindhoven University of Technology, Philips Healthcare, Technical University of Munich, Inchron, Fortiss, TU Dortmund, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, IMSYS and Odys) involving 4 European countries (Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Italy). Besides that, 11 partners (Technolution, TNO, Scania, Ericsson, Siemens, University of Ulm, IMT Lucca, TU Vienna, Intel Benelux, University of Seville, and University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland) support the consortium with training, secondments, use cases and tool chains.
