Control of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 19222).

Abstract

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 19222 Control of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems. Such systems typically operate under very tight timing constraints and at the same time witness an ever-increasing complexity in both size and the amount of information needed to main controllability. Yet, the development of control systems and of communication/computation infrastructures has traditionally been decoupled, so that valuable insights from the respective other domain could not be used towards the joint goal of keeping cyber-physical systems (CPS) controllable. In order to overcome this black box thinking, the seminar brought together researchers from the key communities involved in the development of CPS. In a series of impulse talks and plenary discussions, the seminar reviewed the current start-of-the-art in CPS research and identified promising research directions that may benefit from closer cooperation between the communication and control communities.