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

Exams, marking and student assessment

A combination of written exams and project assignments during the semester