Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) integrate computing and communication capabilities by monitoring, and controlling the physical systems via embedded hardware and computers. CPS are deployed from the nano-world to large-scale wide-area including medical systems, energy systems, transportation systems, and defense and aerospace systems. CPS are a key element to innovative technology since they are the gate for humans to interact and control the physical world around us. As a result, CPS will play a significant role in research and education in the 21st century.

The main challenge in CPS when deployed for any application is the lack of a unifying framework that integrates all the recent and expected advances made in embedded systems development in order to maintain intellectual control over System of Systems (SoS) deployments. Bridging the discrete and continuous worlds of cyber physical systems in a trustworthy way that adequately encompasses hardware required to measure and communicate the information about critical physical parameters and software to analyze this information and control the devices based on the requirements and constraints in multi measurement system environment is a grand foundational challenge.

A session on Autonomous Computing and the Knowledge Economy within Complex Systems will be part of this workshop, with a lead paper entitled Cyber-physical Systems and STEM development: NASA Digital Astronaut Project, by Dr. U. J. Tanik.

Chairs 

• Dr. J. Carbone, Ph.D. (Raytheon)
• Dr. U. J. Tanik, Ph.D. (IPFW)
• Dr. A. Eroglu, Ph.D. (IPFW)

Dedication

CPS workshop is dedicated to Dr. Krämer for his early contributions to CPS research and education. We hope he will continue his contributions during his retirement.