Agents enabling cyber-physical production systems

Smart Agents in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Future industrial systems can be realized using the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that advocate the co-existence of cyber and physical counterparts in a network structure to perform the system’s functions in a collaborative manner. MultiAgent systems share common ground with CPS and can empower them with a multitude of capabilities in their efforts to achieve complexity management, decentralizat...

Enabling Computation Intensive Applications in Battery-Operated Cyber-Physical Systems

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have become indispensable tools for marine scientists to study the world’s oceans. Real time examination of mission data can substantially enhance the overall effectiveness of AUVs in oceanography. However, current AUV technology only allows a detailed analysis of data after completion of a mission. The ability to perform onboard analysis of real time data ...

Industrial Cyber – Physical Systems

Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems

CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) enable a new class of applications that perceive their surroundings using raw data from sensors, monitor the timing of dynamic processes, and control the physical environment. Since failures and misbehaviors in application domains such as cars, medical devices, nuclear power plants, etc., may cause significant damage to life and/or property, CPS need to be safe and ...

Cyber-physical production systems: Roots, expectations and R&D challenges

One of the most significant directions in the development of computer science and information and communication technologies is represented by Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) which are systems of collaborating computational entities which are in intensive connection with the surrounding physical world and its on-going processes, providing and using, at the same time, data-accessing and data-proce...