• CPS is an interdisciplinary field that deals with the deployment of computer-based systems that do things in the physical world.
• It uses computer-based algorithms, tightly integrated with the internet and its users.
• It involves trans disciplinary approaches, merging theory of cybernetics, design and process science and mechatronics.
• In CPS, physical and software components are deeply intertwined, each operating on different spatial and temporal scales.
• Both exhibit multiple and distinct behavioural modalities, and interact with each other in a myriad of ways that change with context.
• Autonomous unmanned vehicles (UAVs) and aircraft navigation systems and smart grids (where electricity is optimally distributed on the basis of calculations in real time by micro-processors) also qualify as CPS.
• CPS has offered robotics, artificial intelligence, digital manufacturing, big data analysis, quantum communication and IoTs.
• The National Science Foundation of the United States already has identified CPS as a key area of inter-disciplinary research back in 2003.

Source: PIB