A cyber-physical-system is a human-engineered architecture that tightly integrates computational algorithms, communication networks, and physical processes through continuous bidirectional feedback loops. Its parameters are: (1) cyber elements that perform sensing, computation, and actuation; (2) physical elements with sensors and actuators; and (3) feedback loops where physical state affects computation and computational decisions affect physical behavior. It persists through engineering design standards (e.g., ISO/IEC 30142), academic research programs, and industrial deployment practices that specify the integration patterns between the cyber and physical domains. [formal: cyberneticum-physicum | substrate: mind | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 1.01]
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cyber-physical-system
A cyber-physical-system is a human-engineered architecture that tightly integrates computational algorithms, communication networks, and physical processes through continuous bidirectional feedback loops. Its parameters are: (1) cyber elem…
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A human-engineered system that tightly integrates computation, networking, and physical processes through bidirectional feedback loops, where cybernetic algorithms monitor and control physical entities, and physical events in turn affect computations.
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- cyber-physical-systemen · CANONICAL
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A cyber-physical system integrates computation with physical processes through feedback loops. Monitoring (sensor data, state observation) is the input side of that feedback loop. Remove monitoring and the CPS cannot observe the physical world or its own state, so it stops operating as a CPS. This is not a meta-level 'needs naming' dependency — it is the operational mechanism of the system itself.
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A cyber-physical system is built and maintained for the sake of automation — its designed purpose is to integrate computation with physical processes to enable automated control. The servant→master direction: CPS exists to serve automated operation of physical systems.
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