High confidence secure medical devices evidence based care with automated patient specific alerts million per year
Cyber Physical Systems A National Priority for Federal Investment in Infrastructure and Competitiveness Janos Sztipanovitz Vanderbilt University John Stankovic University of Virginia Version 8: December 22, 20081 The roaring economy of the 1990s was enabled in large part by information and communication technologies. A catalyst of similar magnitude with a correspondingly significant return on investment is needed to unleash the next wave of innovation and entrepreneurship. Advances in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) promise to do just that. Cyber-physical systems will transform how we interact with the physical world just as the Internet transformed how we interact with one another. They promise us autonomous cars; robots at work, at play and at home; intelligent, energy-efficient, earthquake-proof homes and civil infrastructure; embedded medical devices; unobtrusive assistive technologies; and more. At the heart of these applications are computational cores that interact with the physical world, with intelligence provided by software. By deeply embedding computational intelligence, communication, control, and new mechanisms for sensing and actuation, CPS transform our world with systems that respond more quickly (e.g., autonomous collision avoidance), are more precise (e.g., robotic surgery and nano-tolerance manufacturing), work in dangerous or inaccessible environments (e.g., autonomous systems for search and rescue, firefighting, and exploration), provide large-scale, distributed coordination (e.g., automated traffic control), are highly efficient (e.g., zero net energy Buildings), augment human capabilities (e.g., assistive technologies), and enhance societal well-being (e.g., ubiquitous healthcare monitoring and delivery). These new capabilities require significantly more than inserting information and communication technologies into traditional industries. The inevitable ubiquity of CPS demands that we provide individuals and society with CPS that they can bet their lives on. Progress requires nothing less than the reintegration of the physical and information sciences – the construction of a new systems science and technology foundation for CPS, which is simultaneously physical and computational. W |
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