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Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are an excellent illustration of the types of challenges that future technologists must address. In previous work we presented a course designed to engage students with theoretical aspects of embedded and cyber-physical systems. In this paper we present MicroITS, a platform addressing applied aspects. We articulate the design goals that we believe are needed to achieve engagement in an educational setting, and describe the platform and its baseline functionality. We briefly describe example projects that can be realized using MicroITS. Our hope is that this report will encourage the development of a community of educators and students interested in the use and the continued development of the platform.
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The base hardware platform was developed by Tomas Lithen and Tommy Salomonsson, both of whom provided significant input during this work. We benefited greatly from discussions with Wagner Ourique de Morais, Johan Thunberg, Cheng Zhang, Yingfu Zheng, Wojciech Mostowski, Per-Olof Karlsson, and Tony Larsson during the work. This effort is funded by the KK AstaMoCA project, the ELLIOT network, an NSF CPS Project, and two ERASMUS Mundus scholarships awarded to Gal and Judicial.
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Marchand, J., Puissochet, G., Lithén, T., Taha, W. (2019). MicroITS: A Scaled-Down ITS Platform. In: Chamberlain, R., Taha, W., Törngren, M. (eds) Cyber Physical Systems. Model-Based Design. CyPhy WESE 2018 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11615. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23703-5_13
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