A survey of Cyber-Physical Systems

TLDR

Cyber‑Physical Systems integrate computation with physical processes, yet their theories and applications confront significant challenges. This survey aims to deepen understanding of the emerging multidisciplinary methodology of CPSs. The authors describe CPS features and summarize research progress across perspectives such as energy control, secure control, transmission and management, control techniques, resource allocation, and model‑based software design. The survey highlights three classic applications illustrating CPSs’ promising prospects and briefly outlines research challenges and future directions.

Abstract

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are characterized by integrating computation and physical processes. The theories and applications of CPSs face the enormous challenges. The aim of this work is to provide a better understanding of this emerging multi-disciplinary methodology. First, the features of CPSs are described, and the research progresses are summarized from different perspectives such as energy control, secure control, transmission and management, control technique, system resource allocation, and model-based software design. Then three classic applications are given to show that the prospects of CPSs are engaging. Finally, the research challenges and some suggestions for future work are in brief outlined.