VICCI

VICCI:

Visual and Interactive Cyber-physical Systems Control and Integration

The research group of the VICCI project investigates cyber-physical systems (CPS) from the software technological point of view. The term "cyber-physical system" comprises complex embedded systems, which connect the virtual and phyiscal world (cf. Internet of things) to a very high degree, enabling more efficient process within a broad range of use cases. The most important fields for using CPS are logistics, traffic optimizaion, robots for domestic and industrial environments, modern power networks (smart grid), automatization of buildings and factories (smart facory), as well as, intelligent office installations (smart office).

The aim of the research project VICCI is laying the foundations necessary for the development of complex cyber-physical systems from a software technological point of view. One the one hand, a control centre should help all kinds of users understanding and accessing CPS systems. On the other hand, beyond this control centre, a platform should be developed, which supports developers with creating their own CPS applications and bringing these apps to market. Our example scenario is set within a domestic environment, where a handicapped person is supported with his/her daily routines by a humanoid service robot. This setting can be seen as the most complex application scenario for cyber-physical systems nowadays.

We are supported by a broad range of industrial partners

T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH
ITI
SAP Research
Infineon
Salt Solutions
ECD
sones
TEXSYS
ObjectFab.

At the Faculty of Computer Science, groups from the three professorships "Software Engineering of Ubiquitous Systems" (SEUS), "Computer Graphics and Visualization" (CGV) and "Software Technology" (ST) are conducting research within the project VICCI. At the Junior Professorship in Software Engineering of Ubiquitous Systems, four researchers are led by Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schlegel. They are responsible for the

realization and visualization of an intuitive control interface for CPS,
realization of a middleware for the direct control and query of CPS,
modeling and development of an adaptive runtime system for CPS,
conception and realization of an integrated development environment and surface model for CPS.

Therefore, at SEUS, important basics for running, developing and visualizing cyber-physical systems are investigated and developed.

Further information and news about the project can be found on our project webste VICCI.

Contact:

Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schlegel,
Dipl.-Inf. Florian Niebling,
Dipl.-Medieninf. Diana Lemme,
Dipl.-Inf. Martin Franke,
Dipl.-Inf. Ronny Seiger

Project run time: 01.02.2012 - 31.12.2014

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