Semantic Integration Platform for Cyber-Physical System Design
Qishen Zhanga, Tamas Kecskesb, Ted Baptyc and Janos Sztipanovitsd
Institute for Software Integrated Systems Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN USA
aqishen.zhang@vanderbilt.edu
btamas.kecskes@vanderbilt.edu
cted.bapty@vanderbilt.edu
djanos.sztipanovits@vanderbilt.edu
ABSTRACT
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are establishing heterogeneous engineering domains leading to engineering processes that span multiple design disciplines with separate modeling approaches, design flows and supporting tool suites. One of the challenges of design automation in CPS is the deep integration of models, tools and design flows such that design trade-offs across traditionally isolated design disciplines is facilitated. In this paper we overview experience and results gained along the implementation of an experimental design automation tool suite, OpenMETA, created for a complex CPS design challenge in the ground vehicle domain. The focus of the paper is domain agnostic methods and tools providing infrastructure for the model- and tool- integration platforms in OpenMETA. We present the arguments leading to the creation of the integration platforms instead of pursuing ad-hoc integration of heterogeneous tools and provide details on facilitating semantic integration.
