Taha, Walid2018-12-032018-12-032009Zhu, Yun. "Acumen: An environment for rapid prototyping of Cyber-Physical Systems." (2009) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103731">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103731</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103731Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) combine discrete and continuous physical processes. Developing a new cyber-physical system is an iterative process that involves design, simulation, prototyping, and production. Writing simulation code using current techniques is time consuming. My thesis is that a carefully designed, domain-specific language can alleviate this difficulty. To demonstrate this thesis, I designed and implemented a prototype of a novel simulation environment called Acumen. The centerpiece of Acumen is a physical description language called PhyDL, which allows the user to directly describe dynamic equations governing the system being modeled, making the writing of simulation code much easier for engineers. A series of automatic transformations convert the high-level descriptions into a form that is directly machine executable. This thesis presents the design of PhyDL and several case studies of using PhyDL for designing CPS systems, which show that PhyDL is accurate and easy to use for domain experts.147 ppengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.Computer scienceApplied sciencesThesis750849034THESIS COMP.SCI. 2010 ZHU