Cyber-Physical Systems: Are We Ready?
Cyber-Physical Systems are systems with tight interaction between the physical components and the computational resources. The way we influence and get influenced by Physical world is set to change with advent of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) [1]. These systems are made up of closely coupled actuation, processing and communication components. The impact of Cyber-Physical Systems on humans may be compared to impact of Internet. Internet accelerated the flow of information and built a whole new industry for itself. Whereas CPS could change every known industry is numerous ways than Internet. They have the capability to make IT revolution a small one. Trends assisting development of CPS are highly capable and more economic sensors, actuators, powerful and compact processing, network penetration and revolution in wireless communication systems. They would be pervasively present from something as small as a sensor sensing the electrical charge in a chip to radars tracking the storms, and system monitoring and maintaining the heath of Electric Grids at national level.
They are different from existing embedded systems, by direct interaction with the physical world and complexly networked nature. An embedded systems are characterized by the presence of microcontroller, actuators and embedded code running on them. Physical component is the addition to existing computing portion. Hence it could be said that CPS contains embedded system but the opposite is may not be true. For example a fried controller by itself is an embedded system. But once it is integrated with the communication systems and given the ability to affect its surroundings then it becomes a CPS.
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Few systems for example: an embedded system is safety critical when installed in a vehicle. Such systems are extremely expensive to change; others must change frequently in response to varying requirements (e.g. business systems). Systems which are very expensive to change need extensive in advance analysis to ensure
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