CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Holistic Design Methodology for Automated Implementation of Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems

该项目开发了一个计算机-物理系统设计自动化的框架，以增强人类与跨计算和物理环境集成的复杂系统的交互。作为设计推动者，该项目为功能锁定的人群开发了一种身体/大脑计算机接口(BBCI)，这些人无法通过运动和语音与物理世界互动。BBCI将通过富有表现力的语言生成实现与其他人类的交流，并通过机器人操作器与环境进行互动。该项目利用系统级设计方面的进步，为设计和实施由物理上分散的联网组件组成的不同的人在环路中的网络物理系统开发了一个整体框架。它将通过将特定于任务的人类意图估计的上下文感知推理和学习融入到涉及半自主机器人执行器和高效无线通信框架的应用中，从而推动BBCI技术的发展。该项目的结果有望显著加快复杂的网络物理系统的设计。通过加速从想法到原型的路径，这项工作缩短了辅助技术的开发时间框架和成本，以提高功能锁定个人的生活质量。该项目建立了一个开放的原型平台和设计框架，用于快速探索其他新颖的人在环中应用。开放平台将促进本科生参与网络物理系统研究，建立信心和专业知识。此外，波士顿科学博物馆的新活动将吸引参观者在脑机接口应用程序的背景下试验系统设计原则，同时提供有关基本大脑功能的学习机会。

This project develops a framework for design automation of cyber-physical systems to augment human interaction with complex systems that integrate across computational and physical environments. As a design driver, the project develops a Body/Brain Computer Interface (BBCI) for the population of functionally locked-in individuals, who are unable to interact with the physical world through movement and speech. The BBCI will enable communication with other humans through expressive language generation and interaction with the environment through robotic manipulators. Utilizing advances in system-level design, this project develops a holistic framework for design and implementation of heterogeneous human-in-the-loop cyber-physical systems composed of physically distributed, networked components. It will advance BBCI technology by incorporating context aware inference and learning of task-specific human intent estimation in applications involving semi-autonomous robotic actuators and an efficient wireless communication framework.The results of this project are expected to significantly speed up the design of complex cyber-physical systems. By accelerating the path from idea to prototype, this work shortens the time frame of and cost of development for assistive technology to improve the quality-of-life for functionally locked-in individuals. This project establishes an open prototyping platform and a design framework for rapid exploration of other novel human-in-the-loop applications. The open platform will foster undergraduate involvement in cyber-physical systems research, building confidence and expertise. In addition, new activities at the Museum of Science in Boston will engage visitors to experiment with systematic design principles in context of a brain computer interface application, while offering learning opportunities about basic brain functions.