Optimization and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) integrate sensing, computation, control technologies and networking with physical entities. CPSs also interact with the environment and infrastructure by connecting to a network of multiple devices. Advances in CPSs have the potential to affect various technologies and applications such as connected and autonomous vehicles, crowdsourced data applications, cooperative robots, the Internet of Things, smart grids, cybersecurity solutions and smart cities. Optimization and control play a great role in the modeling, design and analysis of cyber-physical systems (CPSs). Optimization and control are used to provide responsive, stable, resilient, reliable, secure and efficient systems. Both traditional, model-based control approaches and modern, artificial-intelligence-based approaches have been used for this purpose.

The aim of this Special Issue will be to feature articles on the optimization and control of cyber-physical systems and how they will impact technology and society in the future. The articles might span across topics including networked control systems, resilience technologies, the distributed control of multi-agent systems, connected and autonomous vehicle applications, cybersecurity applications, unmanned aerial vehicle applications, sensor and control technologies for cyber-physical systems, and technologies enabling AI-based optimization, assurance, and safety mechanisms.

Within the above dimensions, the scope of the Special Issue welcomes high-quality original research and review articles that cover a broad range of topics related to the optimization and control of cyber-physical systems. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Networked control systems;
• Cyber-attacks on cyber-physical systems;
• State estimators;
• Fault-tolerant controllers and observers;
• Optimization of CPSs and applications in smart grids;
• Deep learning for autonomous vehicles;
• AI-based autonomous vehicle applications in urban air mobility;
• Safety assurance of cyber-physical systems;
• Edge computing for cyber-physical systems’ control and optimization;
• Convex optimization;
• Multi-objective optimization;
• Multi-time scale optimization;
• Smart city applications;
• Validation and verification of cyber-physical systems;
• Crowdsensing for cyber-physical systems’ control and optimization;
• Reinforcement learning for cyber-physical systems’ control and optimization;
• Linear system theory and design;
• Control system design in autonomous vehicles;
• Advanced sensor systems for cyber-physical systems’ optimization;
• AI-based cyber-physical systems’ hardware solutions;
• Modelling and simulation tools for CPS control and optimization.

Dr. Mustafa Ilhan Akbas
Dr. Alireza Mohammadi
Guest Editors

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• cyber-physical systems
• optimization
• control
• control theory
• artificial intelligence
• data science