CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Holistic Design Methodology for Automated Implementation of Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems

该项目开发了一个网络物理系统设计自动化的框架，以增强人类与跨计算和物理环境集成的复杂系统的交互。作为一个设计驱动因素，该项目开发了一个身体/大脑计算机接口（BBCI）的人口功能锁定的个人，谁是无法通过运动和语音与物理世界进行交互。BBCI将通过表达性语言生成和通过机器人操纵器与环境交互来实现与其他人的交流。利用系统级设计的进步，该项目开发了一个整体框架，用于设计和实现由物理分布的网络组件组成的异构人在环网络物理系统。它将通过在涉及半自主机器人致动器和高效无线通信框架的应用中结合上下文感知推理和特定任务人类意图估计的学习来推进BBCI技术。该项目的结果预计将大大加快复杂网络物理系统的设计。通过加速从想法到原型的路径，这项工作缩短了辅助技术开发的时间框架和成本，以提高功能锁定个体的生活质量。该项目建立了一个开放的原型平台和设计框架，用于快速探索其他新颖的人在环应用程序。该开放平台将促进本科生参与网络物理系统研究，建立信心和专业知识。此外，波士顿科学博物馆的新活动将吸引游客在脑机接口应用程序的背景下尝试系统设计原则，同时提供有关基本大脑功能的学习机会。

This project develops a framework for design automation of cyber-physical systems to augment human interaction with complex systems that integrate across computational and physical environments. As a design driver, the project develops a Body/Brain Computer Interface (BBCI) for the population of functionally locked-in individuals, who are unable to interact with the physical world through movement and speech. The BBCI will enable communication with other humans through expressive language generation and interaction with the environment through robotic manipulators. Utilizing advances in system-level design, this project develops a holistic framework for design and implementation of heterogeneous human-in-the-loop cyber-physical systems composed of physically distributed, networked components. It will advance BBCI technology by incorporating context aware inference and learning of task-specific human intent estimation in applications involving semi-autonomous robotic actuators and an efficient wireless communication framework.The results of this project are expected to significantly speed up the design of complex cyber-physical systems. By accelerating the path from idea to prototype, this work shortens the time frame of and cost of development for assistive technology to improve the quality-of-life for functionally locked-in individuals. This project establishes an open prototyping platform and a design framework for rapid exploration of other novel human-in-the-loop applications. The open platform will foster undergraduate involvement in cyber-physical systems research, building confidence and expertise. In addition, new activities at the Museum of Science in Boston will engage visitors to experiment with systematic design principles in context of a brain computer interface application, while offering learning opportunities about basic brain functions.