On control and cyber-physical systems: Challenges and opportunities for discrete event and hybrid systems

Abstract

Summary form only given. Networked digital devices interacting with physical and engineered systems are becoming ubiquitous and will be more so in the future. A deep understanding of the interactions between the cyber and physical worlds is essential in being able to build robust and safe systems, and this issue is receiving increased attention in the US by the networking and information technology community. Stronger cross-fertilization of ideas between control systems, networking and computer science is needed in both research and education to build these systems. In this talk, the main issues in cyber-physical systems will be discussed first in detail. A brief overview of a supervisory control approach in discrete event systems using Petri nets will be given with connections to computer science problems and a promising approach to design cyber-physical systems using passivity that include human interaction will be outlined.