SERC TALKS: “How Can We Systems Engineer Trust into Increasingly Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems?”

Abstract

One of the primary inhibitors of trust in autonomous and cyber-physical systems is the likelihood that any such computer-based systems may be infiltrated and manipulated by a malicious entity. We can systems engineer trust into such systems if we start with an in-depth understanding of the mathematical structure of the hardware and software. We then can migrate the computing from register-based CPUs with operating systems to pure dataflow based networked computing. Internal self-knowledge and constraints then can be trusted to limit autonomy and to protect cyber-physical systems from operating outside of the specified physical envelope. This talk will review the mathematics and provide a perspective of networked computing for the emerging discipline of cyber-physical systems engineering.

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