Educational Challenges For Cyber-Physical Systems Modelling

Abstract

“Cyber Physical Systems” (CPS), continuously connected to the rest of the world, communicating autonomously with other systems and with a certain degree of autonomy for taking decisions, pose certain challenges to industries, but to the training of the next generation of engineers as well. The inclusion of different aspects of CPS in the educational programs is important to prepare the students for the development of such systems. The paper aims at looking at the development of CPS, identifying where and how it is important to train the students in particular. The core of the paper is dedicated to multi-paradigm modelling as a key enabler for mastering the complexity of CPS and focuses on educational challenges and relies on the authors’ experience with the SysML tool TTool and the WoPANets tool that implements network calculus theory.