Week 1 - What is CPS?

Question 1

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)

Answer 1

The integration of computing and physical domain, to improve the reliability and performance of a physical system.

Include hardware such as sensors, actuators and similar embedded systems that interact with the real world as well as with complex software elements

https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/projects/cps/

Question 2

Cybernetics

Answer 2

A wide-ranging field concerned with regulatory and purposive systems. Are various kinds of automatic control devices in engineering for example, an automatic pilot or a controller that maintains a constant temperature in a room.

Question 3

CPS and Cyber Systems

Answer 3

One of the biggest difference between CPS and cyber systems is that the (actuator) operations in CPS are often non-reversable. Rollback is usually available in cyber systems however, consequences of physical operations performed by the actuators are usually not reversable (either very difficult or impossible).