Abstract

Cyber physical systems (CPS) design has become more challenging due to the tight integration of the cyber and physical worlds and the use of cross-domain engineering practices. Moreover, competition in the market in terms of quality, innovation, cost, and time-to-market makes CPS design even harder for the engineers. These challenges advocate for the adoption of integrated engineering methods and tools by CPS design engineers. In addition, state-of-the-art engineering tools are very domain specific, making it difficult to integrate different tools for system-level analysis. This chapter discusses a novel multi-disciplinary systems engineering methodology and related design automation techniques for a complex CPS presented in Wan et al. (IEEE Syst J 11(4):2028–2039, 2017). Instead of domain-specific architecture/simulation models, this method directly targets the early design stage at the functional level. It enables the coupling of systems engineering principles with high-level synthesis techniques from the field of design automation. This blend results in a functional modeling synthesis tool capable of generating high-fidelity simulation models for the design space exploration and validation of multiple cyber-physical architectures. Using real-world automotive use-cases, it is demonstrated how functional models capturing integrated cyber-physical requirements are synthesized into high-fidelity multi-domain simulation models.

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