CP-SETIS
CP-SETIS: Towards Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering Tools Interoperability Standards
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are becoming omnipresent in our daily lives. However, because of their heterogeneity and increasing complexity, CPS development requires a huge variety of engineering tools from various engineering disciplines. To ease development – i.e., reduce costs and development errors – as well as to satisfy requirements for full-fledge traceability across the engineering artifacts and throughout the development lifecycle of safety-critical CPS – as required by more and more standards, like for example ISO26262 in the automotive domain – these tools need to be smoothly integrated into Engineering Environments, allowing fast and efficient development of CPS as well as smooth cooperation of all stakeholders (e.g., engineers, system architects, product managers, decision makers or analysts).
This integration, however, poses huge challenges for CPS developing organizations, which are stuck between two extremes: Either to develop their own hard-to-maintain in-house and ad-hoc Engineering Environments, or to be locked-in with proprietary solutions, which are typically not fully tailorable for supporting their special needs. To overcome this challenge, past and ongoing large scale R&D projects – most in the context of ARTEMIS, e.g., iFEST, CESAR, MBAT, HOLIDES, CRYSTAL and others – have proposed open standards for data and tool interoperability in CPS development, namely the so called IOS (Interoperability Specification).
CP-SETIS (towards Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering Tools Interoperability Standards) is a 24-month Horizon2020 Innovation and Support Action which aims to leverage on these initiatives by proposing and implementing sustainable cooperation and governance structures to (a) facilitate long-term and sustainable cooperation between all involved stakeholder organizations – End Users, Tool Vendors, Research Organizations, Standardization bodies, R&D projects, etc. – and (b) support extensions, advancements and formal standardization of the IOS. CP-SETIS is coordinated by SafeTRANS, with core partners AIT, ARTEMIS-IA, AVL List, KTH, OFFIS, Siemens, and Thales, and Associated Partners ABB, Airbus, ASAM, Daimler, ETSI, and Volvo, where the number of associated partners is expected to increase considerably as the project progresses. CP-SETIS is supported by ARTEMIS Working Groups on Standardization and on Tool Platforms, as well as by the ARTEMIS Center of Innovation Excellence EICOSE.
The CP-SETIS project receives funding from the European Union Horizon2020 program under grant agreement no. 645149.
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