Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Infrastructures

Description

These lecture series are dedicated in communicating the fundamentals of Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Infrastructures, with emphasis on their agricultural exploitation. The areas being covered include but are not limited to: Cyber-physical system basics. Methods for selecting the participating components. Automatic control fundamentals. Techniques for intercepting and respond to triggers from the natural and human-made physical world, like handling asynchronous events, parallel processes, scheduling and threads. Inter process communication. Incorporating machine learning functionality. Performance evaluation. Security issues. Experimentation with actual cyber-physical systems for agricultural purposes.

WEEK	Lectures
1^ST	Defining the role of cyber-physical systems
2^ND	Selecting sensors, actuators, microcontrollers and network entities
3^RD	Automatic control fundamentals
4^TH	Intercepting and respond to signals from the natural and human-made physical world
5^TH	Handling time, synchronous and asynchronous events of diverse priority
6^TH	Parallel processing and threads
7^TH	Modelling states and context switching
8^TH	Interconnecting and communicating with different modules and systems
9^TH	Incorporating intelligent functions for autonomous operation
10^TH	Evaluating the performance of the cyber-physical system
11^TH	Addressing security and ergonomics issues
12^TH	Custom agricultural robots as facilitators for the cyber-physical systems understanding
13^TH	Experimentation with emphasis on agricultural applications

Exams, marking and student assessment

A combination of written exams and project assignments during the semester