Towards a Quantitative Time Analysis and Decision Support for the Deployment of AI-Algorithms in Distributed Cyber-Physical Production Systems

• Published in: IECON 2021 – 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society pp. 1 - 6
• Main Authors: Hujo, Dominik, Vogel-Heuser, Birgit, Kruger, Marius, Schuhmann, Fabian
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 13.10.2021
• Subjects: Computer and Control Sysgtems; Control systems; Embedded control; Fitting; Hardware; Industrial electronics; Production systems; Real-time information systems; Software; Software algorithms
• DOI: 10.1109/IECON48115.2021.9589515

Modern Cyber-Physical Production Systems get more and more intelligent by higher capacities of the used resources and more resource-efficient AI-algorithms. However, a significant challenge is finding the fitting architecture for hardware and software cost-efficiently and with low effort. Currently, this process consists of trial and error or selecting overpowered hardware resources, which leads to expensive and time-consuming processes in the development. This paper deals with a quantitative benchmark of the timing behavior of selected algorithms for preprocessing to enable AI on representative hardware platforms in cyber-physical production systems, building on previous approaches that take a model-based view of hardware/software co-design. This approach is a first step away from a purely qualitative system design, towards a quantitative approach.