Towards Illusions Awareness in Cyber-Physical System's Design

2026-09-15

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研究针对赛博物理系统设计中的现实差距问题，提出一种识别、分类、描述并利用设计错觉的方法，将其转化为可操作的设计知识。

Abstract

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) operate through a continuous sense-compute-act loop within an open context environment, making it impossible to anticipate all the situations the system will face. To cope with this openness, stakeholders rely on assumptions, formalized into design models. However, these assumptions may no longer hold once the system is confronted with runtime reality, resulting in a discrepancy between expected and observed behaviour known in literature as the reality gap. Existing approaches mainly focus on reducing or overcoming it by making simulations more faithful to reality, with no unified methodology to structure and exploit invalidated assumptions that give rise to this gap as reusable design knowledge. We refer to the persistent reliance on invalidated assumptions -and the resulting false confidence in the design model's operational validity -as design illusions, and argue that they need to be made explicit, structured, and exploited as knowledge to support better design decisions. We propose a conceptual pipeline for illusions-awareness that identifies, classifies, characterizes, and leverages illusions to transform them into actionable design knowledge.

Problem

• Cyber-Physical Systems
• reality gap
• assumptions
• design illusions
• knowledge

Innovation

• illusions-awareness
• design illusions
• reality gap
• cyber-physical systems