Workshop on Remote Access Cyber-Physical Testbeds, Arlington, VA, November 12-13, 2015

目前，网络物理系统的实验工作在很大程度上是孤立进行的，在广泛追求的理论基础与集中的、应用驱动的向实际实验平台的过渡之间存在显著差距。这一差距既科学又实际，因为它需要大量资源来开发和维护一个研究试验台。研讨会将探讨远程访问试验台的使用，通过让研究人员围绕一个共享平台聚集在一起，降低网络物理系统研究的进入门槛，并确保实际相关性是一个可实现的目标，让更多的网络物理系统研究人员。事实上，建立远程访问试验台网络将为研究人员提供访问共享实验平台的机会。因此，通过一系列研究试验台，该领域的进步有望大大加快，这些试验台可以供全国各地的研究人员、教育工作者和学生使用，而不会产生与建立和维护实际研究设施相关的高昂费用。建立远程访问试验台网络将使研究人员能够使用最先进的实验设备，从而加速该领域的进展。事实上，通过超越标准的、孤立的研究努力，一个研究人员社区的力量可以被释放出来，有可能产生一个整体，远远大于其各部分的总和。因此，人们无法预测这种努力将带来的所有研究成果。提议的研讨会将调查和讨论与建立和维护此类远程访问、网络物理试验台相关的挑战，包括机器人、电力和能源、交通和智能建筑试验台。最终，研讨会有四个不同的目标：(1)阐明如何构建和组织远程访问网络物理测试平台的总体愿景；(2)确定跨不同学科的现有努力；(3)聚集利益相关者，形成一个致力于远程访问测试平台理念的临界质量；(4)确定远程访问试验台要充分发挥其潜力需要克服的挑战。讲习班的结果是编写了一份报告，讨论上述讲习班的目标，并将广泛散发。

Currently, experimental work on cyber-physical systems is done largely in isolation, and there is a significant gap between the theoretical foundations that are being broadly pursued, and a focused, application-driven transition onto actual experimental platforms. This gap is both scientific and practical in that it takes significant resources to develop and maintain a research testbed. The workshop will explore the use of remote access testbeds as a way of remedying this problem by getting researchers to come together around a shared platform, lowering the barrier-to-entry in cyber-physical systems research, and ensuring that practical relevance is an achievable goal to a larger group of cyber-physical systems researchers. In fact, the establishment of networks of remote access testbeds would provide researchers access to shared, experimental platforms. As a consequence, advances in the field are expected to accelerate greatly through a collection of research testbeds that can be used by researchers, educators, and students all over the country, without incurring prohibitive costs associated with setting up and maintaining the actual research facilities.The establishment of networks of remote access testbeds would provide researchers with access to state-of-the-art experimental, thereby accelerating advances in the field. In fact, by going beyond the standard, isolated research endeavors, the power of a community of researchers working together could be unleashed, with the potential to produce a whole that is significantly greater than the sum of its parts. As a consequence, one cannot predict all the research outcomes that will be enabled by such an endeavor. The proposed workshop will investigate and discuss challenges associated with the establishment and maintenance of such remote access, cyber-physical testbeds, including robotics, power and energy, transportation, and smart buildings testbeds. Ultimately, the workshop has four distinct objectives: (1) Articulate an over-arching vision for how remote access cyber-physical testbeds should be structured and organized; (2) Identify existing efforts across different disciplines; (3) Gather stakeholders to form a critical mass of people committed to the idea of remote access testbeds; and (4) Identify challenges that need to be overcome for remote access testbeds to reach their full potential. The outcome of the workshop is the production of a report that addresses the aforementioned workshop objectives and that will be disseminated broadly.