A Human-AI Framework to Design Collaborative Cyber Physical Systems

The ongoing digitalization processes across various fields present challenges that demand new approaches to address them. A significant challenge involves the collaborative aspect, where smart components of cyber-physical systems (CPS), as well as CPS themselves must collaborate to perform more complex tasks or to adjust to the changing/evolving environment. This has led to emergence of the concept of Collaborative CPS (CCPS). On its turn, the complexity of CCPS requires novel approaches to support the CCPS design process. Therefore, the CCPS designer requires a clear vision of the design process phases, as well as AI-based tools that can support the design process. This work introduces a framework built in line with the Design Science Research Methodology, unveiling the key stages of the design process. Moreover, a set of tools to support the different design process stages are introduced and discussed.