CSR-CPS: Action Webs Seedling

CSR-CPS：行动网幼苗

• 批准号: 0720841
• 负责人: Edward Lee
• 金额: $ 13万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0720841&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSR; CPS; Action; Webs; Seedling

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integrations of computation with physical processes. Embedded computers and networks monitor and control physical processes in feedback loops where physical processes affect computations and vice versa. This seedling project studies the fundamental abstractions behind such ``action webs.'' Many of the abstractions for computing and networking deliberately hide essential properties of the physical world. This project evaluates and elaborates models that instead embrace such properties. The focus is on distributed software, networking, and distributed control systems with essential properties of time management, robustness, and security. The project builds on extensive experience with sensor web technology, which instrument the physical world by embedding low power computing, sensing and communication in the environment. While sensor webs can instrument the world, action webs go further by closing the loop, integrating physical dynamics with the dynamics of software and networks.The project focuses on the interactions of computing with the physical world. It critically examines the foundations of computing that have been built over the last several decades, specifically focusing on the dynamics of networked embedded software in closed-loop cyber-physical systems. The goal of this seedling project is to shape a long-term research agenda that will have profound implications on technical leadership of the US and on engineering and computer science education. Curricula in these fields evolve remarkably slowly, and an effort to blend computation with engineering disciplines that are more deeply rooted in the physical world is required.

信息物理系统（CPS）是计算与物理过程的集成。嵌入式计算机和网络在反馈回路中监控物理过程，其中物理过程影响计算，反之亦然。这个幼苗项目研究这种“行动网”背后的基本抽象。许多计算和网络的抽象概念故意隐藏了物理世界的基本属性。该项目评估和阐述了包含这些属性的模型。重点是分布式软件，网络和分布式控制系统的时间管理，鲁棒性和安全性的基本属性。该项目建立在传感器网络技术的丰富经验之上，该技术通过在环境中嵌入低功耗计算，传感和通信来测量物理世界。虽然传感器网络可以仪器的世界，行动网络更进一步，通过关闭循环，整合物理动力学与软件和网络的动态。该项目的重点是计算与物理世界的相互作用。它批判性地审视了过去几十年来建立的计算基础，特别关注闭环网络物理系统中网络嵌入式软件的动态。 该项目的目标是形成一个长期的研究议程，这将对美国的技术领导地位以及工程和计算机科学教育产生深远的影响。这些领域的课程发展非常缓慢，需要努力将计算与更深入地植根于物理世界的工程学科融合在一起。