Cyber physical system: Paper survey

Embedded systems form the basis of all devices that are currently growing. With increasingly sophisticated technology advancements the dimensions of the devices are getting smaller, and the computing capabilities are now almost on par with the PC in the past two to three years. Based on those abilities the device can be paired with other components such as wireless communication technology, sensors and other supporting components to determine the state of the environment, or actuators as well to give response. Because all of these things take place in the digital world, there arose a discourse what if the digital world were to be combined with the physical world. A system that combines the capabilities of computing, communications and data storage, in order to monitor or control the entities that exist in the physical are world called Cyber Physical Systems. This paper will discuss the things that happened in the early progression of CPS topics (2006 - 2013), as the process of declaring the term CPS, reviews by the research group guided by Edward A Lee in the CPS field, CPS development in terms of scientific publications in the International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), and further research opportunities based on the direction of the development of research topics in the CPS field.