System of Systems Integration Also Includes Hardware Integration: A Small Demonstration of Providing Some Reflection Processes for HW

Abstract

In previous work we showed that reflection and Wrappings are useful tools for system integration. But System of Systems integration also needs to accommodate specific hardware challenges. We discuss simple examples from the operation of a single cyber-physical agent that accepts top-down commands, but uses the Wrappings architecture to self-organize its context specific implementation of them. Our experimental context is CARS (Computational Architectures for Reflective Systems) a test bed for exploring the behavior of distributed autonomous cyber-physical agents in a complex environment.