Developing a Convenient and Fast to Deploy Simulation Environment for Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are interconnected systems, that adapt to their environment. They are quite challenging to engineer and to test, because the its interconnected and networked structures changes at runtime. Dependencies and influencing between nodes in the network might be difficult to test, because there are many hidden impacts on not directly connected nodes. In this paper, we present our experimentation environment which we use to simulate different CPSs. The focus of the development of this environment is to be able to rapidly generate, deploy and change software and network connections within the CPS and to observe resulting impacts on the network.