I-Corps: Translation Potential of Smart Software-Defined Vehicle Management Technology

I-Corps：智能软件定义车辆管理技术的转化潜力

• 批准号: 2406574
• 负责人: Marouane Kessentini
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-15 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2406574&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Translation; Potential; Smart; Software

The broader impact of this I-Corps project is the development of a software container management technology for vehicles. Currently, software containers are emerging technologies that enable easy deployment of the software as services, independent from the hardware devices hosting them in such devices as smart and connected vehicles. The execution of software containers can become computationally expensive in constrained environments with limited central processing unit (CPU) memory and energy resources. This technology is designed to provide efficient management of these containers, which is key to enabling the on-demand usage of vehicle software applications while considering several constraints and priorities including security.This I-Corps project utilizes experiential learning coupled with a first-hand investigation of the industry ecosystem to assess the translation potential of the technology. This technology is based on the prior development of software container management technology for constrained environments such as embedded devices/electronic control units (ECUs) in smart cars. The technology is an orchestration solution to manage the performance of software running both on the edge and in the cloud. The technology balances the load between ECUs in the car, minimizing the CPU memory and power consumption when in power saving mode, while also handling the constraints in the car and in other devices such as phones. The technology is designed to allocate or move or suspend containers between the clusters/ECUs. The solution was evaluated using different real-world scenarios (e.g., bugs isolation and low energy mode), using heterogeneous clusters of ECU devices in the vehicle. The technology represents one of the first container management tools for software running in constrained devices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

I-Corps 项目更广泛的影响是开发车辆软件容器管理技术。目前，软件容器是新兴技术，可以轻松地将软件部署为服务，独立于智能和互联车辆等设备中托管软件的硬件设备。 在中央处理单元 (CPU) 内存和能源资源有限的受限环境中，软件容器的执行可能会变得计算成本高昂。该技术旨在提供对这些容器的高效管理，这是实现车辆软件应用程序按需使用的关键，同时考虑包括安全在内的多个约束和优先事项。该 I-Corps 项目利用体验式学习与第一手调查相结合行业生态系统来评估技术的转化潜力。该技术基于先前针对智能汽车中的嵌入式设备/电子控制单元 (ECU) 等受限环境开发的软件容器管理技术。该技术是一种编排解决方案，用于管理在边缘和云中运行的软件的性能。该技术平衡了汽车内 ECU 之间的负载，在节能模式下最大限度地减少 CPU 内存和功耗，同时还处理汽车和电话等其他设备的限制。 该技术旨在在集群/ECU 之间分配、移动或暂停容器。使用车辆中 ECU 设备的异构集群，使用不同的现实场景（例如错误隔离和低能耗模式）对该解决方案进行了评估。该技术代表了第一个用于在受限设备中运行的软件的容器管理工具。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。