An event-based architecture for cyber physical systems

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) involve communication, computation, and control through physical devices and computational components. The intrinsic heterogeneity, integration of computation and physical processes of CPS challenges the existing modeling frameworks. The close interactions between such systems and physical world make event-based approach as a remarkable solution for the modeling and simulation of CPS. This paper discusses an event-based architecture to enable analysis and design of CPS systems in an integrated manner. A lunar rover example is used to illustrate the proposed approach.