CPS: Synergy: Foundations of Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for Creative Design and Making of Cyber-physical Products

这笔赠款为建立产品创新过程的科学基础提供资金，该过程可以吸引更多的人才来产生新想法和创造新的网络实体产品。主要目标是解决与自然界面、行为建模和安全知识共享有关的基本问题，并特别强调它们的整合。这一目标将通过实现以下三个目标来实现：(1)通过物理领域和虚拟领域之间的自然接口减少参与产品创新的障碍；(2)减少社区产品开发中基于模型的工程的障碍；(3)克服与信息有关的合作和信息共享障碍。这些发现将体现在一个概念验证的网络物理平台上，用于创造性的设计和原型制作。这项研究的结果为建立在自然接口和信息安全发展基础上的网络物理基础设施的新概念提供了希望。具体成果包括：(A)用于网络实体产品的3D设计支持的有充分依据的方法及其在自然用户界面中的软件实施；(B)在基于虚拟社区的产品开发中支持基于模型的工程的技术和中间件；以及(C)用于虚拟设计和制造网络实体产品的最低披露交互、投入质量保证、来源和完整性以及使用控制的技术和协议。拟议的研究将促进形状创造、产品设计和制造以及确保设计协调方面的最新水平。在教育背景下验证这些概念将使学生接触到设计和制造网络物理产品的新兴方法，从而使工程课程受益。从长远来看，该项目进行的研究、教育和传播工作将促进范式的转变，使用自然界面的网络物理设计和制造、安全的行为建模和社区中的知识共享将成为我们国家-S创意设计和制造能力的一部分。

This grant provides funding for establishing the scientific foundations of a product innovation process that can engage a vastly larger pool of talent to generate new ideas and to create new cyber-physical products. The primary objective is to address fundamental issues pertaining to natural interfaces, behavioral modeling and secure knowledge sharing, with particular emphasis on their integration. This objective will be achieved by pursuing the following three aims: (1) reducing barriers to participation in product innovation through natural interfaces between physical and virtual domains, (2) reducing barriers to model-based engineering in community-based product development, (3) overcoming information-related impediments to collaboration and information sharing. The findings will be embodied in a proof-of-concept cyber-physical platform for creative design and prototyping.The results of this research hold promise for a new conceptualization of a cyber-physical infrastructure, building on the developments in natural interfaces and information security. The specific outcomes include: (a) well-founded methods for 3D design support of cyber-physical products, and their software embodiment in a natural user interface, (b) techniques and middleware to support model-based engineering in virtual community-based product development, and (c) techniques and protocols for minimum disclosure interactions, quality of inputs assurance, provenance and integrity, and usage control for virtual design and making of cyber-physical products. The proposed research will advance the state of the art in shape creation, product design and manufacturing, and secure design coordination. Validation of the concepts in an educational context will benefit the engineering curriculum by exposing students to emerging ways of designing and making cyber-physical products. Over the long term, the research, education, and dissemination efforts conducted in this project will facilitate a paradigm shift where cyber-physical design and manufacturing using natural interfaces, secure behavioral modeling and knowledge sharing in communities will become a part of our nation?s creative design and manufacturing capacity.