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Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering Labs is part of the Smart Anything Everywhere initiative.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644400.
Success Stories
By offering funding and support to businesses across Europe, CPSE Labs have helped to innovate many aspects of cyber-physical systems design. Here you can read abut each of our success stories, and the impact of successful CPSE Labs experiments. For a full list of experiements including those still ongoing, see our funded projects page.
Enabling efficient CPS tool chain integration
This experiment supports the uptake of standardized tool chain integration using OSLC among the European CPS players. This has several important positive effects, including helping users to solve the different tool chain integration challenges, allowing SMEs providing tools and niche products in the CPS domain to compete more effectively with large tool vendors, and boosting the establishment of a European ecosystem.
This experiment is supported by our Sweden design centre.
Energy and Load Management in Process Technology Using IEC 61499
This experiment applies demand side management in energy intense industrial processes to production processes in SMEs. The development of a demand based energy management is valuable for practically any industrial process that has a certain degree of automation and offers at the same time the possibility to control the operating time of energy consumption devices based on the desired maximum energy consumption and the energy price.
This experiment is supported by our Germany South design centre.
FormalRob (Rigorous framework for developing and validating robotic applications)
This experiment targets innovative approaches of formally validating and verifying Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) programmed using the GenoM framework. It is relevant to suppliers of formal Verification & Validation (V&V) technology willing to transfer their technology to the field of robotics.
This experiment is supported by our France design centre.
Integration of Co-Simulation Methods into a real-time Platform for CPS
This experiment facilitates the development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) by allowing the use of the same system architecture in various phases of the project development through the support of real-time co-simulation. The development of CPS intrinsically requires that various engineering domains collaborate between each other: computer engineering, control theory, mechanics, thermodynamics, among others. Therefore various stakeholders, various teams, various tools and various techniques have to be synchronized in order to ensure that the development matches its objectives.
This experiment is supported by our Germany South design centre.
SafeAM (Safety enhancement for autonomous robotic airfield management): application to lighting control and management
This experiment targets innovative approaches of realizing safe autonomous CPS, with a focus on mobile ground robot applications. The experiment provides an assessment of the applicability of a number of methods and tools proposed by the French CPSE Labs Design Centre for the safety analysis, the architectural design and validation of such robotic systems. A subset of these techniques has been successfully applied in the aeronautics domain and the experiment explores their applicability to the robotic field.
This experiment is supported by our France design centre.
TEMPO (TMS Experiment with Mobility in the Physical world using Overture)
The TEMPO experiment tackles the problem of disconnected traffic management systems by providing collaborative and distributed control architectures that engage with each other in automated negotiation processes.
Negotiations are based on policies, which help reach agreement on which control measures are beneficial for the system as whole, improving overall network performance.
TEMPO uses the open source Overture technology as a basis for this work.
This experiment is supported by our UK design centre.
BACON (Big dAta and Cps value chain cOmpletioN)
The BACON project combines CPS, Integration and Big Data concepts and expertise from innovative SMEs, ICE (Big Data, Service Orchestration/ESB, Semantic Interoperability) and C2K (Adaptive Manufacturing, Production Data, Control Systems, CPS).
This experiment is supported by our Germany South design centre.
CPSBuDi (Multidisciplinary design of Cyber-Physical Systems for smart energy control in Buildings and Districts)
The CPSBuDi experiment helps to reduce energy usage in buildings by supporting the design of energy-aware smart buildings. CPSBuDi develops technology to design control systems that manage energy usage in buildings. Multi-disciplinary modelling and simulation provides integrated analysis of the building design, energy supply/demand and control algorithms. The technology enables architects to move towards the ultimate goal of designing "net-zero energy" buildings.
This experiment is supported by our UK design centre.
DyPro (Real-time big data driven proactive manufacturing based on CPPS paradigm)
This experiment develops a platform that supports building monitoring applications which collect and analyse production data in real-time and support decision-making processes in the case of problems/opportunities.
This experiment is supported by our Germany South design centre.
IWESLA (Improving Water Efficiency and Safety in Living Areas)
This experiment implements demand side CPS for optimizing water consumption efficiency and safety in living areas. The Sofia2 platform provides real-time data analysis of sensor data and autonomous real-time machine learning of user behaviour. Useage information is used to facilitate early detection of anomalous useage, and to support a consuption awareness applicaton.
This experiment is supported by our Spain design centre.
LegInt (Advancing Legacy Machine Tools into the Digital Manufacturing Century)
This experiment introduces IoT to the world of legacy CNC-milling machines. This experiment demonstrates that it is possible to create a well-focussed, industry-ready concept that can transform (almost) any CNC-legacy milling machine into an IoT-enabled system through a clever combination of ubiquitous Cloud technology, modular, rapid and machine-embedded Function Blocks, and intelligent sensor technology.
This experiment is supported by our Germany South design centre.
MC PORTAL (A Maritime Cloud Portal)
This experiment bridges previous technology gaps in the Maritime Cloud, a common open source and platform-neutral communications interface linking a broad range of service providers in the maritime domain. MC PORTAL provides a simplified web-based portal for managing users, ships, devices and systems and their authentication and authorization information, as well as managing the lifecycle of service specifications from incubation to retirement, and enabling registration of service instance and means for locating them by end users.
This experiment is supported by our Germany North design centre.
SBVP (Shore Based Voyage Planning)
This experiment provides the foundation for a safe and efficient shore based voyage planning for SOLAS ships, using an approach to voyage preparation similar to that used in aviation. Shore based voyage calculation has the advantage of basically no bandwidth limitation and is partly (only weather and navigation) offered as a manual commercial service, executed by senior navigators.
This experiment is supported by our Germany North design centre.
4MOB-AIRMAN (Value chain completion for robots in airfield management)
This experiment at securing the design of the 4MOB robotic mobile platform and at assessing the safety of this design for one safety critical operation: the maintenance and control of the lighting system on an airport runway. It will be focussed on the use of the SMOF and Altarica methods to respectively add safety monitors in the 4MOB platform and to assess the safety level of the resulting platform.
This experiment is supported by our France design centre.
CPS-PSAP112 (Drones, eCall and Cyber Physical Systems for Public Safety Answering Points 112)
This experiment introduces the next standardized eCall data in the management of critical accidents and the use of drones as a new source of information.
The experiment is focused on the industrial domain of civil security (new domain where the Sofia2 platform had not previously been applied)
and in particular the fields of emergency response and civil protection.
This experiment is supported by our Spain design centre.
IPP4CPPS (Integrated product-production co-simulation for cyber-physical production system)
The IPP4CPPS project contributes to the optimization of the complete product-production cycle by having real-time information about machines,
production process, product and perturbations into a platform that allows coping with uncertainties for the automatic scheduling and control.
This experiment is supported by our UK and Germany South design centres.
OPAVES (Open Platform for Autonomous VEhicle Systems)
This experiment transfers CPS technology traditionally used in aerospace domain (and other domains that require high dependable systems) to the emerging domain of autonomous vehicle systems.
This experiment is supported by our Sweden design centre.
PLAMICS (Platform for Mixed Criticality Systems)
This experiment reduces the gap between prototyping and deployment of cyber physical systems and creates and demonstrates a prototyping platform for mixed criticality, safety related and real-time, cyber-physical systems.
This experiment is supported by our Sweden design centre.
RAST (Risk Analysis and Simulation Testing for Agricultural Robots)
This experiment applies safety analysis and simulation-based testing to agricultural robots from Naïo Technologies. HAZOP-UML provides structured and systematic analysis of the operational risks induced by the robots, and MORSE-based testing is transferred into a new test platform based on an alternative simulator.
This experiment is supported by our France design centre.
SBB (Shore Based Bridge)
This experiment makes extensive use of the physical testbed of the eMIR platform for the development of a SBB, and by this contributes to the improvement of the testbed in order to support the development of further future navigation solutions.
SBB enables the on-shore navigation of an autonomous vessel by introducing a shore based e-NAV Station receiving a range of sensor data, enabling a navigator to ustilise multiple data feeds from the vessel for monitoring/navigation and updating the route/passage plan, which will be send automatically on board.
This experiment is supported by our Germany North design centre.
Smart Urbana (Enabling municipalities with CPS instruments and business models for digital transformation of real time data about urban processes into digital services for the community)
This experiment creates a novel digital urban environment for local communities to enable transparency of local life, a rich and diverse set of information services to improve quality of life, and a simple, holistic and integrated vision of urban processes in real time. An urban model conforming to international standard ISO 37120 is used as initial template for the development of a detailed CPS model of each city taking part in the experiment, used to enable digital transformation of big data streams into diverse exploitation services for the city stakeholders.
This experiment is supported by our Spain design centre.