Cyber-physical systems hold promise of solving today's most pressing societal challenges. However, current CPS design is held back by an increasingly unmanageable degree of complexity. Convide aims at combating this development to enable engineers to build the next generation of dependable, configurable, and flexible CPS.
Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner, Spokesperson of CRC 1608.
We believe that in order to substantially advance CPS design, computer scientists, electrical, and mechanical engineers need to work together much more closely than they have in the past. To achieve this goal, our Collaborative Research Center is defining a new and more central role of software engineering within systems engineering.
Prof. Dr. Ina Schaefer, Deputy Spokesperson of CRC 1608.
Research Program
Researchers at the CRC investigate novel methods for developing CPS with views, a central mechanism employed to cope with the ever-increasing complexity of these systems. We pursue the goal of creating concepts for tool-supported, model-based development processes, enabling engineers from different disciplines and design spaces with different views on CPS to work together seamlessly. Dependencies between views, versions, variants, and product generations are explicitly modelled in a so-called “virtualized single underlying model” (V-SUM). The use and further development of the V-SUM will form the shared technological core of the CRC. The V-SUM approach allows engineers to develop CPS in different views and different design spaces as independently as possible, and provides assistance in managing view consistency with as much automation as possible and user interaction only where appropriate.