Project Details
Projekt
GRK 2323: Conducive Design of Cyber-physical Production Systems
Subject Area
Systems Engineering
Term
from 2018 to 2023
Website
Homepage
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 319919706
The RTG focuses on the Conducive Design of the cooperation between human operators and technology in cyber-physical production systems (CPPS). CPPS consist of a combination of net-work-connected digital (cyber) and physical system components. Their architecture allows for sys-tem changes on shortest time scales, with the resulting flexibility requiring a new level of adaptive decision-making and action by humans and automation. Current research agendas are mainly dis-cussing this aspect from a technical perspective. The proposed RTG complements these approaches with an emphasis on methods for the human-centered design of CPPS. The core research question is how to achieve optimal performance of the entire socio-technical system via the combination of the unique potentials provided by humans and machines. The RTG’s main goal is to contribute scientific insights on how the conducive design of CPPS influences competencies, health and trust of human operators. Three thematic clusters will be in the fo-cus of interest: adaptation strategies for changeability, the development and maintenance of competencies, as well as the assessment and evaluation of human states. To address issues related to the three clusters, the interdisciplinary research team will combine and adapt theoretical concepts that so far have only been considered within the boundaries of relatively independent research traditions. It will develop new methods and evaluate them in prototypical systems to provide an empirical basis for deriving suitable interventions. Studying the design of CPPS in two application domains – process industries and mobile agricultural systems – will allow for generalizing the insights to a wide range of CPPS domains. The interdisciplinary qualification programme offers local as well as international mentoring and training. It includes colloquia for reflecting and discussing goals, values, and methods of the different disciplines, as well as courses at the intersection of engineering sciences and psychology. Further-more, it provides manifold opportunities for the RTG’s doctoral researchers to share and discuss their work with local and international experts. To promote interdisciplinary collaboration and communication, the RTG is organized as a project house around the participating researchers’ design and evaluation laboratories. Moreover, each doctoral researcher is supervised by two participat-ing researchers from different disciplines. With this programme, the doctoral researchers will acquire knowledge and competencies regarding the scientific traditions of the disciplines, and at the same time will benefit from the innovative potential provided by the research at the interfaces between disciplines.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Technische Universität Dresden
Spokesperson
Professor Dr.-Ing. Leon Urbas
