Cyber-Physical Systems: A Reference

Prof. Wang Xue is now an associate dean of Department of Precision Instrument at Tsinghua University. He is an associate director of State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instrument; Director, Institute of Instrument Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. From May 2001 to July 2002, he was a visiting professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin. Dr. Wang’s research areas include cyber-physical systems, precision measurement and smart sensor technologies wireless sensor networks measurement systems, computational intelligence, medical imaging processing, intelligent maintenance and fault diagnosis. Until now, he has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. Wang is the author of 3 books entitled 《Wireless Sensor Networks Measurement System》，《Measurement Intelligent Information Processing》 and 《Modern Intelligent Information Processing: A practical Approach》. And he has co-authored 4 other books. Dr. Wang is an executive council member of China Instrument and Control Society, associate director member of China Computer Federation Technical Committee on Sensor Network, associate director member of academic committee of Chinese Society for Measurement, executive council member of China Society for measurement, executive council member of Electromagnetic Measuring and Information Processing Instruments Branch of China Instrument and Control Society, member of Fault Diagnosis council of China Mechanical Engineering Society, member of National Standards Technical Committee for Electrical Measuring Instruments, member of SAC/TC124, member of ISO/TC104; IEEE member, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Senior Member, IEEE Computer Society Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Member, IEEE Communications Society Member. Dr. Wang is deputy editor-in-chief of 《Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument》, associate editor of 《Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering》 (in English, SCI index) and 《Journal of Measurement Science and Instrumentation》, editor of 《SENSORS》 Journal (SCI index). Dr. Wang won several awards including: IEEE instrumentation and measurement society “Andi Chi Best Paper Award” in 2012, “Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Top Cited Article 2005-2010”, “Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society Best Paper Award, 2011”. His Book 《Wireless Sensor Networks Measurement System》（in Chinese） won Press and Publication Administration of People’s Republic of China “Three 100 Original Engineering Award” in 2008. Dr. Wang’s Book 《Measurement Intelligent Information Processing》(in Chinese) and 《Modern Intelligent Information Processing: A practical Approach》 (in Chinese) won the honor of “Beijing Elite Textbook”; Dr. Wang also won the title of “Excellent Editor of 《Scientific challenges of 10000》”, published by Scientific Press in China, 2011.

• Part I Introduction.- Definition of Cyber-Physical Systems and Common characteristics.- Applications.- Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems.- Future potential of Cyber-Physical Systems.- Part II Principles and Methodologies for Cyber-Physical Systems.- Cyber-Physical Systems Infrastructure and Design Methodology.- Communication Protocol for Cyber-Physical Systems.- Cyber-Physical Embedded Systems.- Real-time Cyber-Physical Systems.- Time synchronization in Cyber-Physical Systems.- Cyber-Physical Systems Collaborative Computing.- Cyber-Physical Systems Reputational Computing.- Part III Applications.- Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart Grid.- Cyber-physical systems software infrastructure for smart building monitoring.- Cyber-Physical Systems in Healthcare Monitoring.- Cyber-Physical Systems for Safety & Security in Industrial process.- Cyber-Physical systems for structure monitoring.- Part IV Future Trends.- Conclusions and Future Research Directions.