Impact and Influence of Cyber-Physical Systems Research on Autonomous Aerospace Systems
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2023
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Cyber-Physical Systems, as a discipline, is relatively new, appearing prominently between
2000-2010, but has rapidly made contributions in many disciplines. The aerospace industry
has been a primary application domain for CPS from the beginning, with much focus on
autonomous systems, particularly Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Aerospace systems provide an
opportune, complex, safety-critical system on which to prove out CPS research, techniques, and
strategies where robustness, agility, and provable performance guarantees are important. In
this paper we survey and discuss the synthesis of core CPS research areas into four key areas of
autonomous aerospace systems. We illuminate how these have been applied across aviation and
space systems that interface with human operators and/or bystanders. We also discuss how
computing and select CPS concepts more prominently applied in other applications could be
applied in aerospace systems. Finally, we elaborate on existing shortcomings in cyber-physical
aerospace systems and propose future avenues of exploration and application to pursue.
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This is a pre-print of the article Bradley, Justin, Cody Fleming, Kristin Y. Rozier, and Amy Pritchett. "Impact and Influence of Cyber-Physical Systems Research on Autonomous Aerospace Systems."
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