Evolution from mechatronics to cyber physical systems: An educational point of view

Plateaux, Régis; Penas, Olivia; Choley, Jean-Yves; Mhenni, Faïda; Hammadi, Moncef; Louni, Farid

doi:10.1109/mecatronics.2016.7547169

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“…Both researchers and educators began intensively developing and offering related courses, including youtube videos [7], started publishing their findings on curriculum development [8]- [12] and published related lecture notes [13]- [14]. While this work is ongoing and covers multiple engineering disciplines, from aerospace engineering [15] to mechatronics [16] to bioengineering [17] to systems engineering [12], [18] to transdisciplinary courses [8], two related issues have not been covered sufficiently well: (a) teaching cyberphysical systems in software engineering programs, and (b) designing online laboratories for teaching cyberphysical systems in such programs. There are not that many reports in the literature on dealing with related problems or their solutions [19].…”

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Evolution in the Education of Software Engineers: Online Course on Cyberphysical Systems with Remote Access to Robotic Devices

Zalewski

Gonzalez

2017

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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Abstract-The objective of this work is to address, from the educational perspective, the trends in the software engineerring discipline, which rely on a significant increase in the use of remotely accessible and remotely controlled embedded devices. The paper presents an approach and experiences with introducing robotic devices accessible online to a course on Cyberphysical Systems in an undergraduate Software Engineering program. A closer look at both technologies, online labs and cyberphysical systems education, reveals that they are not in sync. Remote labs have embraced a wide variety of science and engineering disciplines, but they are not popular in software engineering. On the other hand, software engineering education, being crucial to the development of cyberphysical systems has not focused on such systems by any measure. This project and paper aim at addressing this gap.Keywords-Software Engineering Education, Cyberphysical Systems Education, Embedded Systems Education, Robotic Devices, Online Labs, Remote Labs. IntroductionWith the changing landscape of the software engineering discipline, the emergence of new technologies and dramatically increasing scale of applications, it is necessary to address new challenges in education caused by these changes. One such area of tremendous growth is the field of Cyberphysical Systems (CPS), which combine access to physical devices with connectivity to the Internet, and are critical to the nation's wealth and security. They are all networked and almost exclusively software controlled, thus becoming a new issue in software engineering and technology, in addition to being a substantial factor in development of national economies. Traditionally structured educational programs in computing did not catch up, yet, with respective developments in industry, therefore, education and curriculum development should be an integral component of construction and use of such systems. This is especially true in undergraduate software engineering programs, which this paper addresses.iJOE -Vol. 13, No. 8, 2017 133 There are not that many reports in the literature on dealing with related problems or their solutions [19].Consequently, the objective of this paper is to present an insight into the development of a lab and related projects within this lab, which could help establish similar laboratories in undergraduate software engineering programs and related disciplines. The rest of the paper is structured as follows. Section 2 discusses the Cyberphysical Systems course itself, Section 3 outlines the need for and essence of development projects, and Section 4 presents the contents of the lab and some results from first experiences. Section 5 presents evolution of the cyberphysical systems education in the context of disruptive technologies and Section 6 concludes the paper with discussion of some findings. Undergraduate Course on Cyberphysical SystemsThe Cyberphysical Systems course discussed here is a new course based on a previously offered Embedded Systems Programming course, wi...

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolution in the Education of Software Engineers: Online Course on Cyberphysical Systems with Remote Access to Robotic Devices

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Gonzalez

2017

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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“…These products need an intimate coupling between the cyber and physical components and will be presented in the nano at large-scale world. CPS may be considered a confluence of embedded, real-time and distributed sensor systems as well as control [6,7].…”

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“…In this research, we propose a model of the dynamic flight system, which is based on the models proposed by [6,19,20]. Figure 3 shows the interaction between the pilot, the airplane and the Stewart platform with three degrees of freedom.…”

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“…This data is interpreted numerically and processed to be sent to the servo motors that operate the Stewart platform and allow the movements of the flight simulator to be reproduced. In Figure 5, you can see the data flow as described below: (1) programming a pulse-width modulation (PWM) channel; (2) programming functions of downloading and uploading roll, pitch and yaw data that come from the flight simulator; (3) programming conversion of roll, pitch and yaw values into pulse width modulation (PWM) signals to be able to move the servo motors; (4) programming the generation of the square signal by assigning a constant value to the period corresponding to 50 Hz; (5) programming the connection between the processed data with the data acquisition card with pulse-width modulation (PWM) signals to control the servo motors 1 and 3; (6) programming the connection between the processed data with the data acquisition card with pulse-width modulation (PWM) signals to control the servo motor 2. Figure 6 shows the flow of information from computer 1 (where the flight simulator is installed) to computer 2 (where LabVIEW is installed).…”

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A New Real-Time Flight Simulator for Military Training Using Mechatronics and Cyber-Physical System Methods

Villacís¹,

Fuertes²,

Escobar³

et al. 2020

Military Engineering

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So far, the aeronautical industry has developed flight simulators and space disorientation with high costs. This chapter focuses on the design and implementation process of a low-cost real-time flight simulator for the training of armed force pilots using mathematical models of flight physics. To address such concern, the mathematical models of a Cessna type aircraft have been developed. This has been followed by a flight simulator, which operated with a new construction using a Stewart scale platform and operated by a joystick. Specifically, the simulator has been developed using an approximation of a physical cyber-system and a mechatronic design methodology that consists of mechanical, electrical and electronic elements that control the Stewart platform with three degrees of freedom. Based on software engineering, the algorithms of mathematical and physical models have been developed. These have been used to create an interactive flight simulator of an aircraft based on the Unity 3D game engine platform. The performance of the algorithms has been evaluated, using threads and processes to handle the communication and data transmission of the flight simulator to the Stewart platform. The evaluation of the developed simulator has been validated with professional pilots drilled with the Microsoft Flight Simulator. The results demonstrated that this flight simulator stimulates the development of skills and abilities for the maneuver and control of an aircraft.

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“…The cyber-physical properties of mechatronic systems are intensively investigated now in different aspects. For instance, the problems of system architecture [25][26][27], constraints caused by cyber-physical environment [28], efficient technological processes [29,30], relevant methods of software design and modelling [31,32] can be mentioned in this regard. More specific solutions for renewable energy production and environmental systems also received recently attention within the framework of new control design concepts as "Glocal" framework for hierarchical multi-agent networked dynamical systems [33][34][35].…”

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Interdisciplinary design methodology for systems of mechatronic systems focus on highly dynamic environmental applications

Ivanov

Ruderman

Schiffer

et al. 2017

IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

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Evolution from mechatronics to cyber physical systems: An educational point of view

Cited by 13 publications

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Evolution in the Education of Software Engineers: Online Course on Cyberphysical Systems with Remote Access to Robotic Devices

Evolution in the Education of Software Engineers: Online Course on Cyberphysical Systems with Remote Access to Robotic Devices

A New Real-Time Flight Simulator for Military Training Using Mechatronics and Cyber-Physical System Methods

Interdisciplinary design methodology for systems of mechatronic systems focus on highly dynamic environmental applications

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