Yingfu Zeng, Modeling Basic Aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems

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Cyber-physical systems comprise digital components that directly interact with a physical environment. Specifying the behavior desired of such systems requires analytical modeling of physical phenomena. Similarly, testing them requires simulation of continuous systems. While numerous tools support later stages of developing simulation codes, there is still a large gap between analytical modeling and building running simulators. This gap significantly impedes the ability of scientists and engineers to develop novel cyber-physical systems. We propose bridging this gap by automating the mapping from analytical models to simulation codes. This presentation reports on the result of our analysis of two, more complex, case studies from the domain of rigid body dynamics and the current project to support the proposed method.