Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization: Active Resources

网络物理系统虚拟组织（CPS-VO）由NSF于2010年成立，旨在：（i）促进和促进CPS PI及其团队之间的互动和交流;（ii）与更广泛的工程和科学界共享项目产生的工件和知识;以及（iii）促进和促进CPS研究人员和行业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，并在全球范围内催化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，也是快速发展的研究社区的协作平台。它是~150个特殊兴趣小组的所在地，拥有8，000多名成员，包括12，000多个网页和18，000多个文件，记录了CPS前8年的历史。该提案旨在设想如何在未来几年将CPS-VO转变为一种资源，成为“行动目的地”，而不是存储库和协作功能。在这个建议中，我们解决了下一阶段的发展CPS-VO：（1）改变门户网站从被动的信息存储库和协作平台，成为一个积极的资源，作为研究工具的CPS，（2）作为一个集成平台的开源CPS工具和模型出现从研究界和（3）使门户网站的CPS教育的积极资源。活动资源封装了CPS-VO的新功能。研究团队可以在三个不同的层面上为活动资源做出贡献：（a）端到端设计和仿真工具链和测试平台，包括模型库、工具和基于网络的用户界面，以访问资源，（B）可以集成到设计流程中的单个工具，以及（c）集成到开放库中的模型和代码。该提案将通过开展一系列学生竞赛来刺激CPS社区的发展，这些竞赛将在前两年举行，以宾夕法尼亚大学的无人驾驶飞行器设计工作室为基础，这将使学生和研究人员能够研究四旋翼的物理设计，动力学和控制，这是一个多模型仿真系统，来自范德比尔特，促进了嵌入式软件的虚拟集成，用于控制，估计，规划和协调，多个微型飞行器的动态飞行。此外，CPS虚拟办事处将扩大与社区的联系，以确定新的和正在出现的虚拟办事处需求，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，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.