EAGER/Cybermanufacturing: Abstractions and Architectures for Open Composable Services

基于云的设计和制造的一个关键要素是软件和硬件资源的虚拟化概念，它允许自动组合和向不同的制造商社区提供制造服务，并支持各种制造业。 EARLY概念探索性研究资助（EAGER）项目将研究制造业中此类组合服务的新架构，这些服务旨在通过开放通信和互操作性协议取代有问题和易出错的数据翻译。 如果成功，该研究将使各种软件工具和制造应用程序之间的标准化开放通信成为可能。本研究旨在通过以下四个具体任务来证明这种新方法的可行性：（1）确定制造知识的模块化表示的关键抽象，包括形状、材料和物理信息;（2）根据可计算功能（构造和查询）形式化这些抽象;（3）使用所识别的抽象和功能开发用于服务的互操作性和组合的开放协议;（4）调查架构在所选择的用例场景上的有效性。 如果成功的话，研究的结果将被用来开发一个全面的研究议程的抽象和架构的开放组合服务在网络制造。

A key element of cloud-based design and manufacturing is the notion of virtualization of software and hardware resources, which allows automated composition and delivery of manufacturing services to diverse communities of makers and supports a variety of manufacturing industries. This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project will investigate new architectures for such composable services in manufacturing that seek to replace problematic and error-prone data translation by open communication and interoperability protocols. If successful, the research will empower standardized open communication between variety of software tools and manufacturing applications. This in turn should enable the virtualization of manufacturing services, leading to significant gains in efficiency, further fueling democratization of manufacturing, and empowering the culture of making.This research seeks to demonstrate feasibility of the new approach by focusing on four specific tasks: (1) identifying key abstractions for modular representation of manufacturing knowledge, including shape, material, and physical information; (2) formalizing these abstractions in terms of computable functions (constructions and queries); (3) developing open protocols for interoperability and composition of services using the identified abstractions and functions; (4) investigating effectiveness of the architecture on selected use-case scenarios. If successful, the results of the research will be used to develop a comprehensive research agenda on abstractions and architectures for open composable services in cyber-manufacturing.