Designing cyber-physical systems from natural language descriptions

摘要

We present an approach to allow a non-programmer develop simple cyber-physical systems using natural language text to specify the system behavior. Users specify the relationship between sensor inputs and actuator outputs through a series of conditional sentences written in English. The relationships are used to generate code for an Arduino development platform and to produce a netlist connecting the Arduino UNO pins to sensors and actuators. Our current approach supports only combinational relationships between sensors and actuators, but we intend to extend the approach to sequential systems in the future.