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

目前，关于网络物理系统的实验工作主要是在孤立的情况下进行的，在被广泛追求的理论基础与向实际实验平台的聚焦、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，也是实用的，因为开发和维护研究试验台需要大量资源。研讨会将探索使用远程访问试验台作为解决这一问题的一种方式，方法是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门槛，并确保对更大规模的网络物理系统研究人员来说，实用相关性是一个可实现的目标。事实上，远程访问试验台网络的建立将为研究人员提供共享的实验平台。因此，通过收集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床，预计该领域的进步将大大加快，而不会产生与建立和维护实际研究设施相关的高昂成本。远程访问试验床网络的建立将为研究人员提供访问最先进的实验的机会，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，一个共同工作的研究人员社区的力量可以被释放出来，并有可能产生一个明显大于其各部分之和的整体。因此，人们不能预测这种努力将带来的所有研究结果。拟议的讲习班将调查和讨论与建立和维护这种远程访问、包括机器人、电力和能源、运输和智能建筑试验台在内的网络物理试验台有关的挑战。最终，研讨会有四个不同的目标：(1)阐明远程接入网络物理试验台应如何构建和组织的总体愿景；(2)确定跨不同学科的现有工作；(3)召集利益相关者组成致力于远程接入试验台想法的关键人群；以及(4)确定远程接入试验台需要克服的挑战，以充分发挥其潜力。讲习班的成果是编写了一份涉及上述讲习班目标的报告，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.