A survey of model-driven techniques and tools for cyber-physical systems

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have emerged as a potential enabling technology to handle the challenges in social and economic sustainable development. Since it was proposed in 2006, intensive research has been conducted, showing that the construction of a CPS is a hard and complex engineering proces...

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Published in:Frontiers of information technology & electronic engineering 2020-11, Vol.21 (11), p.1567-1590
Main Authors: Liu, Bo, Zhang, Yuan-rui, Cao, Xue-lian, Liu, Yu, Gu, Bin, Wang, Tie-xin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Big Data
Communications Engineering
Computer Hardware
Computer Science
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks
Construction
Cyber-physical systems
Design
Electrical Engineering
Electronics and Microelectronics
Embedded systems
Engineering
Industrial development
Instrumentation
Internet of Things
Interoperability
Modelling
Networks
Quality of service
Review
Software
Subsystems
Sustainable development
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Summary:Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have emerged as a potential enabling technology to handle the challenges in social and economic sustainable development. Since it was proposed in 2006, intensive research has been conducted, showing that the construction of a CPS is a hard and complex engineering process due to the nature of integrating a large number of heterogeneous subsystems. Among other approaches to dealing with the complex design issues, model-driven design of CPSs has shown its advantages. In this review paper, we present a survey of research on model-driven development of CPSs. We are concerned mainly with the widely used methods, techniques, and tools, and discuss how these are applied to CPSs. We also present comparative analyses on the surveyed techniques and tools from various perspectives, including their modeling languages, functionalities, and the challenges which they address in CPS design. With our understanding of the surveyed methods, we believe that model-driven approaches are an inevitable choice in building CPSs and further research effort is needed in the development of model-driven theories, techniques, and tools. We also argue that a unified modeling platform is needed. Such a platform would benefit research in the academic community and practical development in industry, and improve the collaboration between these two communities.
ISSN:2095-9184
2095-9230
DOI:10.1631/FITEE.2000311