Periodic Reporting for period 1 - 1-SWARM (Integrated development and operations management framework for cyber-physical systems of systems under the paradigm of swarm intelligence)
Berichtszeitraum: 2020-01-01 bis 2021-06-30
1-SWARM project focuses on the design-operations for CPSoS with the specific focus on cross-domain use-cases in the industrial sector of large-scale distribution and logistics. The project aims at achieving industrially acceptable level of robustness of heterogeneous networks of CPS whose operation emerges as “Swarm Intelligence”. The solution aimed by 1-SWARM will span across different steps of the value chain, connecting intelligence through the digital domain to maximize their effectiveness and reliability. The objective is to provide a methodological and technological framework, modular and re-usable (“Swarm Intelligence DevOps Framework”), for the engineering of the three major aspects of CPSoS: i) The HW/SW runtime platform that sustains their operations; ii) The distributed and orchestrated Intelligence that guarantees their autonomic behavior; iii) The extension of their “existence” into the cyber-domain for a full life-cycle approach.
1) How to ease both the ease the engineering, deployment and maintenance of IEC61499-based CPSoS
2) How to verify and validate the design and development of IEC61499-based CPS
3) How to ease human-CPSoS interaction in real-life environment
4) How to reduce cyber-security concerns of IEC61499-based CPS
5) How to extract information from the data stream produced by IEC61499-based CPS
6) How to integrate IEC61499-based CPS with their digital counterpart (digital twins) to enable a life-cycle management
7) How to collect both numerical and mathematical evidences of the soundness and correctness of 1-SWARM framework.
For a complete overview, we invite the reader to review the Technical Report.
1-SWARM will develop a methodological and technological framework (= “Swarm Intelligence DevOps Framework”, modular and re-usable in its approach, to ease the design, deployment and maintenance of CPSoS spanning across different steps of the value chain. This framework will cover the three major engineering challenges of: i) Providing a HW/SW operations and runtime platform for CPSoS; ii) Facilitating the deployment of “Swarm Intelligence” into the systems; iii) Anchoring their life-cycle management onto a digital-twin infrastructure.
In 1-SWARM a systemic approach has been chosen to improve the quality and cost of development and operations for large CPSoS (the “Swarm Intelligence DevOps Framework”), tackling the corresponding engineering challenges from a multi-dimensional point of view. To quantify the impact that the project’s technologies and methodologies can have, the different life-cycle stages of a CPSoS have been considered, identifying the most relevant ones: i) Conception and design; ii) Deployment, operation and (re-)configuration. Since each of them is characterized by its own peculiarities, different evaluation metrics have been identified to demonstrate the effectiveness of 1-SWARM’s solution.