An Architecture for Interoperability of Embedded Systems and Virtual Reality

Abstract

Virtual Reality enhances the development process of complex and inter-operating products due to bringing existing systems together with virtual prototypes. The modeling of existing products within the virtual reality environment and furthermore the properties of products and product combination are important factors for success in a product life cycle. A reduction of effort for modeling of existing products and simulation of properties can be achieved, when systems and their properties are transported to the virtual reality environment. In this paper, we present a service-oriented architecture for embedded systems and virtual reality. The multiplicity of interfaces, protocols, and hardware and software aspects requires an architecture that overcomes the related difficulties to increase efficiency. Service-oriented architectures make different scenarios in the product life cycle possible, whereas the implementation effort for embedded systems is reduced due to software reuse.

Comparing Reuse Strategies in Different Development Environments

“…[25]) empirical results only peripherally. The removed papers [26,27,28,11,29,22,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39] were from the experience report and expert opinion categories. We also excluded textbooks (e.g., [40]), since their major purpose is to teach a methodology rather than to evaluate reuse success.…”

Interoperability of non-functional requirements in complex systems

“…Real-world Data: In previous work, we developed a technique based on services to connect real embedded systems with their counterparts in the VR [18]. In Figure 5, we show such a connection of an embedded device including the visualization of its current non-functional properties.…”

Challenges of secure and reliable data management in heterogeneous environments

“…Moreover, the high implementation effort caused by a large amount of necessary system adaptations needs to be handled efficiently. In Section 3.1, we present our approach of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide the required uniformity [25,17]. We highlight, how the different limitations of the devices and the varying requirements on the functionality of a service including scenario specific adaptations can be addressed by generating a service based on a software product line [7].…”

“…As a consequence, we need distributed data storage, which allows visualization (e.g., in Virtual Reality systems [17]), simulation, or analyses, which are common in the domain of Business Intelligence. Furthermore, a reliable architecture has to consider additional requirements that go along with the heterogeneity and quality requirements.…”