Project based courses in control cyber physical system co-design

Abstract

Today's cyber-physical (CP) electronic system design includes hardware and software with intelligent sensing and controls. Those CP future applications use high definition images, videos and context information with interactions to the physical world through sensors and actuators. Senior level courses including embedded controls, FPGA design, and server side programming have been developed and tested in senior and undergraduate courses and senior design projects. The project based courses were designed and motivated by the Urban Information Systems, project for emerging Smart Cities. This paper reviews specific curricula, lab organization, hardware and software platforms, and preliminary results of offered courses in 2015--2016.