Abstract
The guest editorial section of Computer Communications journal provides an overview cyber-physical systems (CPS) by introducing major issues in CPS along with recent research efforts and future opportunities for CPS. The guest editorial section informs that the term CPS has emerged as a promising research paradigm, which involves the combination of control, communication, and computation. CPS is an integration of computation with physical processes where embedded computers and networks monitor and control the physical processes, with feedback loops where physical processes affect computations and vice versa. A key element in CPS is an information and communication technology (ICT) component as a communication medium, which connects the computing and physical elements by information exchange. CPS are also expected to exceed the traditional embedded systems in various aspects such as efficiency, safety, reliability, robustness, and adaptability.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-7 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Computer Communications |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology ( 2010-0022076 ), and in part by the DGIST R&D Program of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea ( 12-BD-0404 ).
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CPS are expected to exceed the traditional embedded systems in various aspects such as efficiency, safety, reliability, robustness, adaptability, and a lot more. In other words, CPS promise systems that can respond more quickly, more precisely, more reliably, and more efficiently. For example, by a quick response, we can possibly avoid fatal car accidents. With a better precision, we can have better robotic surgery. We can further have so-called zero net energy buildings with improved efficiency, just to name a few. Consequently, research on CPS will significantly improve the fundamental performance of almost every engineered systems, and eventually the quality of our daily life. Some key characteristics of CPS can be summarized as follows: In the US, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has recommended CPS as a top priority for federal research investments [3] . As a result, the CPS program was initiated at the National Science Foundation (NSF) with a funding level around 30 M USD per year in 2009. The NSF CPS program focuses on grand challenges in a number of sectors including automotive, energy, healthcare, aerospace, transportation, civil infrastructure, and manufacturing. Some examples of grand challenges are as follows [5,6] : By abstracting these application domains, the NSF CPS program aims to identify cross-cutting fundamental scientific and engineering principles that support the integration of cyber and physical elements across all the application sectors.