Support Action CPSoS
Platforms as a Driver for
Smart Industrial
Cyber-physical Systems of Systems
Christian Sonntag
TU Dortmund / euTeXoo GmbH
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Project Overview
• 30 month Support Action (2013-2016)
• Provides an exchange platform for Systems
of Systems (SoS)-related projects and communities
• Focus on systems where large complex physical systems
interact with computing and communication systems –
Cyber-physical SoS
Goal:
Define a European research and innovation agenda
on Cyber-physical Systems of Systems
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Cyber-physical Systems of Systems
CPSos Overview and Key Research and Innovation Challenges Torino 6.10.2015
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Platforms for CPSoS
• Key challenges for CPSoS are similar across industrial
Roadmap: www.cpsos.eu/roadmap
domains
Transportation
Process Industries
Logistics
Manufacturing
Electric grids
Platforms can solve key challenges in several domains to
enable smart industrial CPSoS
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CPSoS Platform Challenges
Modeling, Simulation, Model Management
• CPSoS engineering involves lots of different models
– Different formalisms, different domains, different resolutions
→ Needed: Collaborative model platforms
– Faster model development, better model re-use, automated modelling
– Meta-modelling, model management, model consistency
– Model exchange, legacy model integration, trust in models between
competing companies
– Model maintenance and adaptation
– System-wide multi-resolution models of CPSoS
– Full-life-cycle modeling
– Economic / socio-technical modelling
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CPSoS Platform Challenges
Semantic Systems Integration
• Smart CPSoS must be highly dynamic, interconnected, flexible
– Highly distributed, can span across countries
– Quick adaptation to market needs, customer demands
• CPSoS are heterogeneous, with a deluge of systems from many
different providers
→ Needed: Platforms for the seamless integration and reconfiguration
of CPSoS components
– Integrating, handling, and processing large amounts of data from a
myriad of sources
→ Basis for “smart” applications (situational awareness, real-time
monitoring, data-based system operation, …)
– Reference architectures, open platforms and easy-to-test interfaces for
plug-and-play integration, live removal, quick reconfiguration
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CPSoS Platform Challenges
Integrated CPSoS Engineering
• Continuous evolution - separation between the design/engineering
phases and operational stage is disappearing
• Heterogeneous infrastructures, lots of different actors
• High flexibility, frequent dynamic reconfigurations
→ Needed: Full-life-cycle collaborative engineering platforms
– Specification, adaptation, cross-layer design, evolution, and
maintenance of requirements, models, and components
Traditional Engineering
Iterative Engineering (DANSE project)
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Thank you very much for your
attention!