Contextual Integration of Activities in Virtual and Field Operating Cyber Physical Systems

Work for this paper was motivated by the recognition that cooperation between engineering model system (EMS) representing cyber physical system (CPS) and cyber units of represented CPS is essential for both sides mainly to assist critical decisions. While EMS provides sophisticated model representations, procedures and much more for CPS, CPS acts as verified source of experience information to enhance models in EMS. This cooperation results theoretically grounded and, at the same time, experience proven representation fulfilling one of the essential current requirements against EMS. This paper contributes to methodology for the above connection mainly to enhance autonomous cooperation between EMS and the related cyber units of CPS. Cooperation between virtual and physical CPS configurations are analyzed using new organized scenario. Results of this analysis are applied at development concept and process to provide autonomous EMS (AEM) support for engineering in autonomous CPS. Following this, concept of model mediated research (MMR) is introduced to support research in engineering for AEM and CPS. Finally, experimental implementation of MMR concept in activity of the Virtual Research Laboratory (VRL) at the Doctoral School of Applied Informatics and Applied Mathematics (AIAMDI), Obuda University is discussed.