CYPHERS

CYPHERS - The CyPhERS project ("Cyber-Physical European Roadmap and Strategy") aims at a strategic research and innovation agenda for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) as well as recommendations for action for the European Commission. CyPhERS surveys, analyses, and evaluates the economic, technical, scientific, and societal impact of CPS.

The term CPS was coined around 2006 in the US to denote the need for new theories and engineering methods to deal with the increasingly complex engineered systems.

An original description of CPS is as follows: “The integration of physical systems and processes with networked computing has led to the emergence of a new generation of engineered systems: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Such systems use computations and communication deeply embedded in and interacting with physical processes to add new capabilities to physical systems. These CPS range from minuscule (pace makers) to large-scale (the national power-grid).“

In CPS, interconnections are used to form systems that thus encompass physical objects, humans, embedded systems, networks and the internet.

CyPhERS is an 18 month project in which KTH collaborates with Fortiss (manager), Univ. of Trento, Univ. Joseph Fourier, Univ. of York and Siemens AG.  

A main part of the work includes organizing workshops, reviewing existing investigations and performing complementary investigations of challenges and opportunities for Europe.

For more information see cyphers.eu/node/5