Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization: Active Resources

网络物理系统虚拟组织(CPS-VO)由国家科学基金会于2010年成立，目的是：(I)促进和促进CPS PIs及其团队之间的互动和交流；(Ii)使项目产生的人工制品和知识能够与更广泛的工程和科学界共享；以及(Iii)促进和促进CPS研究人员与业界之间的合作和信息交流。在过去的五年中，CPS-VO已经成为美国CPS社区的焦点，它在催化世界范围内的CPS研究方面发挥了重要作用。CPS-VO门户网站是一个中央信息库，也是一个快速发展的研究社区的协作平台。它是大约150个特殊兴趣小组的家园，拥有超过8,000名成员，包括超过12,000个网页和超过18,000个记录CPS前8年历史的文件。该提案着眼于设想CPS-VO将如何在未来几年转变为一种资源，它将成为“工作的目的地”，而不是存储库和协作能力。在本提案中，我们讨论了CPS-VO发展的下一阶段：(1)将门户网站从被动的信息库和协作平台转变为主动资源，作为CPS的研究工具；(2)作为CPS研究社区出现的开源CPS工具和模型的集成平台；以及(3)使门户网站成为CPS教育的主动资源。Active Resources封装了CPS-VO的新功能。研究小组可在三个不同层面为主动资源作出贡献：(A)端到端设计和模拟工具链和测试台，包括模型储存库、访问资源的工具和基于网络的用户界面；(B)可整合到设计流程中的个别工具；(C)整合到开放储存库中的模型和代码。该提案将通过在头两年举办一系列学生竞赛来刺激CPS社区的增长，该竞赛将在宾夕法尼亚大学无人驾驶飞行器设计工作室的基础上进行，该工作室将允许学生和研究人员学习四旋翼的物理设计、动力学和控制，这是Vanderbilt的一个多模型模拟系统，促进了嵌入式软件的虚拟集成，用于控制、估计、规划以及协调、动态的多微型飞行器飞行。此外，CPS VO将扩大到社区，以确定新的和新出现的VO需求，并通过重新设计面向用户的门户网站和整合新的信息管理技术来提供更好的用户体验。

The Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization (CPS-VO) was founded by NSF in 2010 to: (i)facilitate and foster interaction and exchanges among CPS PIs and their teams; (ii) enable sharing of artifacts and knowledge generated by the projects with the broader engineering and scientific communities; and (iii) facilitate and foster collaboration and information exchange between CPS researchers and industry. During the last five years, the CPS-VO has become the focal point of the CPS community in the US and it has played a significant role in catalyzing CPS research world-wide. The CPS-VO Portal serves as a central information repository and as a collaboration platform for the rapidly growing research community. It is the home for ~150 special interest groups, reaches over 8,000 members, and includes over 12,000 webpages and over 18,000 files capturing the first 8 years of CPS history. This proposal looks to envision how the CPS-VO will be transformed over the next years into an resource which becomes a "destination for doing" rather than a repository and collaboration capability. In this proposal we address the next phase of development of the CPS-VO: (1) changing the Portal from being a passive information repository and collaboration platform to becoming an active resource as research tool for CPS, (2) serving as an integration platform for open source CPS tools and models emerging from the research community and (3) making the Portal an active resource for CPS education. Active Resources encapsulate the new capabilities of the CPS-VO. Research teams may contribute to Active Resources on three different levels: (a) end-to-end design and simulation tool chains and test beds including model repositories, tools and web-based user interfaces to access resources, (b) individual tools that can be integrated into design flows, and (c) models and code integrated into open repositories. The proposal will spur CPS community growth through conducting series of student competitions to be held in the first two years building on unmanned air vehicle design studio from UPenn that will allow students and researchers to study the physical design, dynamics and control of quad rotors, a multi-model simulation system from Vanderbilt facilitating the virtual integration of embedded software for control, estimation, planning, and coordinated, dynamic flight of multiple micro air vehicles. In addition, the CPS VO will extend outreach to the community to identify new and emerging VO needs and provide enhanced user experience through redesign of the user facing portal and integration of new information management technologies.