Research fields in CPS

During my survey last week, I attempt to have a comprehensive study of current research on CPS area. Reading papers from ICCPS'10, I found that CPS covers a wide area, such as foundation of CPS, the CPS's application, CPS testbed, CPS security, and CPS design, CPS resource allocation. I will focus on the CPS security survey.

A brief history about CPS could make us have a good understanding on it. NSF awarded a five-year $5 million grant to a research project titled “ Science of Integration for Cyber-Physical Systems,”. This project is a joint effort of many research centers (Vandy, ND, General Motors Research and Development Center, UCB, Memphis). Vanderbilt will lead the project. It aims to develop the theory, methods and tools to build cps, by combining seamlessly the necessary heterogeneous computational and physical components. The Notre Dame team will be using the theoretical concepts such as passivity and symmetry to address system uncertainties and the interdependence of design concerns.

Also, by looking into the paper, I found that nowadays all the CPS research has a great real-world testbed, not just simulation. Even model designed CPS research has tried to build their testbed so as to evaluate its performance.

Two papers were taken a lot of thought when I'm reading.

A Testbed for Secure and Robust SCADA Systems

Simulation of Network Attacks on SCADA Systems

both of them were written by guys from ISIS. They claim that it is good to use C2WT as testbed for evaluation of effect by network attack over SCADA. By doing this, you have to know more about control system used in C2WT, how plant and controller are related. Considering NCS we are using is from Emeka's model, I'm asking for further reading from Emeka about this NCS.