Cyber Physical systems program launched by DST
Q. Which program has DST launched to provide self driven cars, autonomous UAV and airplane navigation systems?- Published on 10 Apr 17a. CPS
b. CTS
c. Cyber Physical Systems
d. Both a and c are the same
e. None of the above
ANSWER: Both a and c are the same
Department of Science and Technology (DST) has launched Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) programme dealing with self-driven cars, autonomous unmanned vehicles and aircraft navigation systems.
The programme is still at a nascent stage.
INR. 3,000-crore has been has been conceived for it and it will first take root in some of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
What is Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)?
- 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.
