I-Corps: Translation Potential of Smart Software-Defined Vehicle Management Technology

I-Corps项目的更广泛影响是开发车辆软件容器管理技术。目前，软件容器是一种新兴技术，可以将软件作为服务轻松部署，独立于智能和联网车辆等设备中托管它们的硬件设备。 在具有有限的中央处理单元（CPU）存储器和能量资源的受约束环境中，软件容器的执行可能在计算上变得昂贵。该技术旨在提供对这些容器的有效管理，这是实现车辆软件应用程序按需使用的关键，同时考虑到包括安全性在内的几个限制和优先事项。该I-Corps项目利用经验学习以及对行业生态系统的第一手调查来评估该技术的翻译潜力。该技术基于先前开发的软件容器管理技术，用于受限环境，例如智能汽车中的嵌入式设备/电子控制单元（ECU）。该技术是一种编排解决方案，用于管理在边缘和云中运行的软件的性能。该技术可以平衡汽车ECU之间的负载，在节能模式下最大限度地减少CPU内存和功耗，同时还可以处理汽车和其他设备（如手机）中的约束。 该技术旨在在集群/ECU之间分配、移动或挂起容器。使用不同的真实场景（例如，缺陷隔离和低能量模式），使用车辆中的ECU设备的异构集群。该技术代表了在受限设备中运行的软件的首批容器管理工具之一。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact of this I-Corps project is the development of a software container management technology for vehicles. Currently, software containers are emerging technologies that enable easy deployment of the software as services, independent from the hardware devices hosting them in such devices as smart and connected vehicles. The execution of software containers can become computationally expensive in constrained environments with limited central processing unit (CPU) memory and energy resources. This technology is designed to provide efficient management of these containers, which is key to enabling the on-demand usage of vehicle software applications while considering several constraints and priorities including security.This I-Corps project utilizes experiential learning coupled with a first-hand investigation of the industry ecosystem to assess the translation potential of the technology. This technology is based on the prior development of software container management technology for constrained environments such as embedded devices/electronic control units (ECUs) in smart cars. The technology is an orchestration solution to manage the performance of software running both on the edge and in the cloud. The technology balances the load between ECUs in the car, minimizing the CPU memory and power consumption when in power saving mode, while also handling the constraints in the car and in other devices such as phones. The technology is designed to allocate or move or suspend containers between the clusters/ECUs. The solution was evaluated using different real-world scenarios (e.g., bugs isolation and low energy mode), using heterogeneous clusters of ECU devices in the vehicle. The technology represents one of the first container management tools for software running in constrained devices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.