Complexity Analysis of Industrial Scale Cyber Physical Systems

Elsevier eBooks, 2017

Leveraging a comprehensive analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in Europe, this chapter presents overall findings focusing on (i) a characterization of CPS, (ii) opportunities and challenges in representative CPS application domains, and (iii) recommendations for action resulting from a cross domain analysis. The characterization enables a high-level description of a CPS, or classes of CPS, according to their technical emphasis, cross-cutting aspects, level of automation and life-cycle integration. We illustrate how these characteristics can be used to relate to design issues, systems and related terms. The recommendations are to (1) Strengthen cross-disciplinary research collaboration, (2) Foster CPS education and training, (3) Stimulate public-private partnerships for CPS technology experimentation and to ensure dependable ICT infrastructure, (4) Promote interoperability of CPS technology, (5) Anticipate new business models and supporting open innovation, (6) Ensure trustworthiness including safety and security, and (7) Favor human-centered approaches to CPS.

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are smart systems that depend on the synergy of cyber and physical components. They link the physical world (e.g. through sensors, actuators, robotics, and embedded systems) with the virtual world of information processing. Applications of CPS have the tremendous potential of improving convenience, comfort, and safety in our daily life. This paper provides a brief introduction to CPSs and their applications. Introduction The term " cyber-physical system " (CPS) was coined in 2006 by Helen Gill of the US National Science Foundation (Henshaw, 2016). As the name suggests, CPS has both cyber (software control) and physical (mechanism) elements. Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are engineered systems that are designed to interact seamlessly with networks of physical and computational components. These systems will provide the foundation of our critical infrastructure and improve our quality of life in many areas. CPSs and related systems (such as IoT and industrial Internet) have the potential to impact various sectors of the economy worldwide. CPS is basically an engineering discipline, focused on technology and modeling physical processes (differential equations, stochastic processes, etc.) with mathematical abstractions. In a CPS, computing elements coordinate and communicate with sensors, which monitor cyber and physical indicators and actuators. CPS is also similar to the Internet of Things (IoT), sharing the same basic architecture (Cyber-physical system, 2017). It is also related to embedded systems. While an embedded system is

Computers in Industry, 2017

Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops, 2015

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are deemed as the key enablers of next generation applications. Needless to say, the design, verification and validation of cyber-physical systems reaches unprecedented levels of complexity, specially due to their sensibility to safety issues. Under this perspective, leveraging architectural descriptions to reason on a CPS seems to be the obvious way to manage its inherent complexity. A body of knowledge on architecting CPSs has been proposed in the past years. Still, the trends of research on architecting CPS is unclear. In order to shade some light on the state-of-the art in architecting CPS, this paper presents a preliminary study on the challenges, goals, and solutions reported so far in architecting CPSs.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012

A German project is presented which was initiated in order to analyse the potential and risks associated with Cyber-Physical Systems. These have been recognised as the next wave of innovation in information and communication technology. Cyber-Physical Systems are herein understood in a very broad sense as the integration of embedded systems with global networks such as the Internet. The survey aims at deepening understanding the impact of those systems at technological and economical level as well as at political and sociological level. The goal of the study is to collect arguments for decision makers both in business and politics to take actions in research, legislation and business development.

2019

The strategic initiative Industry 4.0 implies integration of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing, leading to what is called "smart factory". The lack of theoretical foundation and methodologies creates barriers that may hamper the adoption, commercialization, and market success of the new CPS applications. The reference frameworks and architectures support the analysis and specification of domains, and facilitates the unification of methods used by various disciplines such as industrial engineering, control theory, communication and information technology, thus making possible their combined use. The paper presents an analysis of the benefits and use of reference frameworks and architectures in the development of CPS. Standardized meta-models of reference frameworks and architectures are presented. Particular attention is paid to the NIST reference framework and architecture of CPS, with a view to establishing a methodology for develo...

In Cyber Physical Systems(CPS) there is a tight integration between cyber and physical world where individually the characteristics of both are different. So CPS is good example of heterogeneity in different aspects like the components used, data, the communication methodology which they adopt etc. So various research challenges are seen in the domain of CPS. We have discussed few research challenges such as Service Composition, Resource Provisioning and Autonomics. It also talks about various architectures which have been used by researchers. This paper focuses on different research challenges and the scope for research in those areas.

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2017

Emerging cyber-physical systems (CPS) field will impact on every activity of the daily life in the next few years With the increasing advances in ICT information communication technology (ICT), multidisciplinary fields of research such as cyber-physical systems (CPS) have been wide. The emergence of cyber-physical-social systems (CPS) as a novel paradigm has revolutionized the relationship between humans, computers and the physical environment. This paper aims to present a comprehensive overview of CPS key aspects from different points of views such as design, methodology, and key enabler technologies such as sensor networks, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and multi-agent systems. Also, some important applications such as smart cities which are considered as one of the important application that will provide new services for healthcare applications, vehicular networks, energy distribution, the monitoring of environmental changes, business and commerce applications, emergency response, and other social activities and industrial systems are explored. Also, this paper considers the requirements and methodologies for CPS integrations such as CloudIoT and CloudIoV systems. Although, there are significant efforts and studies have been made towards CPS application, key challenges and problems

— Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational algorithms and physical components. CPS technology will transform the way people interact with engineered systems. CPS will bring advances in personalized health care, emergency response, traffic flow management, and electric power generation and delivery, as well as in many other areas now just being envisioned. This paper aims for providing an insight into this emerging multidisciplinary methodology.

Cyber-Physical Systems

Emerging industrial platforms such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet (II) in the US and Industrie 4.0 in Europe have tremendously accelerated the development of new generations of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that integrate humans and human organizations (H-CPS) with physical and computation processes and extend to societal-scale systems such as traffic networks, electric grids, or networks of autonomous systems where control is dynamically shifted between humans and machines. Although such societalscale CPS can potentially affect many aspect of our lives, significant societal strains have emerged about the new technology trends and their impact on how we live. Emerging tensions extend to regulations, certification, insurance, and other societal constructs that are necessary for the widespread adoption of new technologies. If these systems evolve independently in different parts of the world, they will 'hardwire' the social context in which they are created, making interoperation hard or impossible, decreasing reusability, and narrowing markets for products and services. While impacts of new technology trends on social policies have received attention, the other side of the cointo make systems adaptable to social policiesis nearly absent from engineering and computer science design practice. This paper focuses on technologies that can be adapted to varying public policies and presents (1) hard problems and technical challenges and (2) some recent research approaches and opportunities. The central goal of this paper is to discuss the challenges and opportunities for constructing H-CPS that can be parameterized by social context. The focus in on three major application domains: connected vehicles, transactive energy systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles.