CSR-CPS: Ph.D. Student Forum on Cyber-Pysical Systems

网络物理系统(CP)的特点是计算资源和物理资源之间的紧密集成和协调。CP通过系统系统集成计算、通信和存储能力，这些系统必须在多个时间尺度且通常在多个空间尺度上与物理世界实时交互。这些系统中不同组件固有的异构性和不确定性操作对传统的控制、通信、实时调度和机器人学科提出了新的挑战。结合2009年的IEEE实时系统研讨会(RTSS 2009)，该项目帮助支持一个博士生论坛，以讨论(I)在网络-物理系统的背景下出现的一组跨学科研究问题，(Ii)由于计算、通信和与物理世界的大规模交互而成为可能的新应用，以及(Iii)解决这些研究问题的初始系统架构。主要目标是帮助学生(和实时社区)认识到网络物理系统不同于过去过度设计的实时嵌入式系统，并提供一个论坛，学生可以通过这个论坛讨论他们的建议，以解决在这种情况下出现的复杂的聚合系统问题。因此，我们需要鼓励就新出现的研究主题进行建设性的辩论。第二个目标是鼓励学生参与新的研究方向，并提供一个渠道来讨论和奖励这一令人兴奋的新兴研究领域中最具创新性的学生想法。论坛将欢迎顾问和学生参加，但重点将放在培训和激励下一代研究人员上。

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are characterized by extremely tight integration of and coordination between computational and physical resources. CPS integrate computation, communication, and storage capabilities through systems of systems that must interact with the physical world in real-time at multiple time scales and often at multiple spatial scales. The inherent heterogeneity and the non-deterministic operation of different components in these systems pose new challenges to traditional control, communication, real-time scheduling, and robotics disciplines. In conjunction with the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium in 2009 (RTSS 2009), this project helps to support a Ph.D. student forum to discuss (i) the set of interdisciplinary research problems that arise in the context of cyber-physical systems, (ii) novel applications that become possible thanks to the integration of computing, communication, and interaction with the physical world at scale, and (iii) initial system architecture that addresses some of these research problems. The primary goal is to help students (and the real-time community) recognize that cyberphysical systems are different from the over-engineered real-time embedded systems of the past, and to provide a forum by which students can discuss their proposal for addressing the complicated aggregate systems issues that arise in this context. As such, we need to encourage constructive debate on emerging research topics. A secondary goal is to encourage student involvement in new research directions and offer a channel to discuss and reward the most innovative student ideas in this exciting emerging research field. Advisors and students will be welcome to attend the forum, but the focus will be on training and motivating the next generation of researchers.