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

远程访问网络物理测试平台研讨会，弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿，2015 年 11 月 12-13 日

• 批准号: 1547076
• 负责人: Magnus Egerstedt
• 金额: $ 7万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547076&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Remote; Access; Cyber; Physical

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.

目前，关于网络物理系统的实验工作主要是孤立进行的，在广泛追求的理论基础与向实际实验平台的集中的、应用驱动的过渡之间存在着巨大的差距。这一差距既是科学的，也是实际的，因为它需要大量的资源来开发和维护一个研究试验平台。研讨会将探讨使用远程访问测试平台作为补救这一问题的一种方式，让研究人员聚集在一个共享平台周围，降低网络物理系统研究的进入障碍，并确保实际相关性是一个可实现的目标，以更大的网络物理系统研究人员群体。事实上，建立远程访问试验台网络将使研究人员能够访问共享的实验平台。因此，通过一系列可供全国各地的研究人员、教育工作者和学生使用的研究试验台，该领域的进展有望大大加速，而不会产生与建立和维护实际研究设施相关的高昂成本。远程访问试验台网络的建立将为研究人员提供最先进的实验、从而加速该领域的进步。事实上，通过超越标准的、孤立的研究努力，研究人员共同努力的力量可以得到释放，有可能产生一个整体，远远大于其部分的总和。 因此，人们无法预测这种奋进将带来的所有研究成果。拟议的研讨会将调查和讨论与建立和维护此类远程访问、网络物理测试平台（包括机器人、电力和能源、交通和智能建筑测试平台）相关的挑战。 最终，研讨会有四个不同的目标：（1）阐明远程访问网络物理测试平台应如何构建和组织的总体愿景;（2）确定不同学科的现有工作;（3）聚集利益相关者，形成致力于远程访问测试平台理念的关键人群;以及（4）确定远程访问测试平台需要克服的挑战，以充分发挥其潜力。讲习班的成果是编写了一份报告，阐述上述讲习班的目标，并将广泛分发。