Cyber Physical System: Architecture, Applications and Research Challenges

Cyber world and physical world were considered as two different entities in the past decade. However, researchers have found that these two entities are closely correlated with each other after integration of sensor/actuators in the cyber systems. Cyber systems became responsive to the physical world by enabling real time control emanating from conventional embedded systems, thus emerging a new research paradigm named Cyber Physical System (CPS). In this article, we investigate major challenges in the integration of cyber world with physical world and its applications. In addition, we propose an architecture which contains several modules supporting the CPS. We found that every module in our proposed architecture has its own significance and can be applied to various applications.