CPS-VO 2: Active Resources

The central objective of the Active Resources project is to transform the CPS-VO web portal from a collaboration platform and passive repository of information into an active resource that provides access to tools and methods emerging from the CPS research community. As a first step towards providing templates and infrastructure for the dissemination of open-source model libraries and a tool integration platform, we conducted a pilot CPS Design Challenge for undergraduate students from four universities, which was sponsored by Microsoft Research. Our demonstration will showcase that design challenge activity and some of the simulation tools used by students to co-design mechanical, electronic, and software controls in a cyber-physical systems design challenge, where the objective was to build and demonstrate autonomous deployment and recovery mechanisms for innovative biological sensors in nature.