Literature review on Cyber Physical Systems Design

Carolina Villarreal Lozano, Kavin Kathiresh Vijayan

Procedia Manufacturing · 2020 · 43 citations · 12 references

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CPS integrate computational and physical components in real time, yet no standardized design process exists, prompting research into flexible, modular systems such as learning factories for Industry 4.0. The paper aims to review the current state of the art, characteristics, design methodologies, applications, and challenges of CPS, while also examining learning factories and suggesting future research directions. The study conducts a literature review of CPS design methodologies, applications, challenges, and learning factory initiatives to identify gaps and propose further work.

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Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are a disruptive technology currently in trend across many industries consisting of both computational and physical components working together to implement a process in real time, connecting, communicating and gathering all the information from defined sub-systems, creating large and complex systems. Currently there is no standardized design process for the development of a CPS, which is a challenge because these systems must be flexible and able to add more sub-systems at any point. Several research centers and universities around the world are creating learning factories, which are small-scale factories that will support knowledge development for Industry 4.0 topics and among these, CPS. This paper focuses in researching the current state of art, characteristics, design methodologies, applications, and challenges for CPS. The study also addresses the learning factories being developed and proposes further work.

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