Agile Development of CPS: Systematic literature review on agility in Engineering of CPS in different engineering environments

Modern engineering practice can be found in many settings – in established companies as well as in recently started development projects as Startups. When developing state-of-the-art systems like Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), they are confronted with similar challenges. Agility can be one approach to deal with such challenges, but regularly fails to be implemented in engineering environments for CPS.

What we want to do

While agility in the development of established companies developing CPS is a well-established field of research, the research on Startups developing CPS is new. We want to systematically review the state of research on both topics to compare similarities, differences, boundary coniditions and fields of actions to work on such systems.

What you would do

Your task is the characterization of different inconistency situations to propose patterns occuring in inconsistency situations. This includes systematic structuring of situation descriptions, their graphical and logical representation, derivation of patterns and validation in expert interviews.

Am I the right person?

Your task is to conduct a systematic literature review  on state of research on agility in established engineering environments and in startups and an in-depth analysis of the interconnection of both fields of research. The thesis results into concrete description of possible fields-of-action for future research in both fields and their interconnection.

Deine Benefits

• Working on an interdisciplinary topic between mechanical, electrical, software and industrial engineering

• Learning of scientific methods and project management

• Intense 1:1 Coaching with an IPEK research assistant

• Connection to other students working on interdisciplinary engineering projects

• Goal of publication of the work

   

Interested? Write a mail to thomas voelk ∂does-not-exist.kit edu!